Guidance and regulation

Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 3 January 2017

You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 22 January 2021

Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 30 April 2024

Beef abattoirs must dress, categorise, classify, weigh and label carcases according to regulations, and communicate results to suppliers.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2021

Allocation coefficients and decisions

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 17 January 2023

Marketing standards for veal and beef importers, exporters, producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 15 February 2021

Allocation coefficients and decisions

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 26 January 2022

Abattoirs in the Pig Carcase Grading Scheme must abide by the regulations for dressing, weighing, grading and marking carcases.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 30 September 2022

The Beef Carcase Classification (BCC) scheme is the compulsory classification of beef carcases to an agreed standard so that a fair meat price can be set.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2021

You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 20 September 2021

This notice is to inform you of the next round of poultrymeat import quotas which are detailed in Annex 1 attached.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 29 April 2024

How to prove your abattoir is complying with the Pig Carcase Grading Scheme.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 31 March 2014

What you need to do as a farming business to trade with the EU.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 28 July 2021

This notice is to inform you of the next round of applications for the GATT beef quota.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 26 April 2024

This notice is to inform you of the requirement for an export certificate for certain poultry products from Brazil.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 27 March 2024

How to get approval for operating plants handling or processing meat in England and Wales.

• From: Food Standards Agency
• Updated: 16 February 2021

How to join the Pig Carcase Grading Scheme, administered by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2021

You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 20 September 2021

This notice is to inform you of the next round of applications for the GATT beef quota.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 20 December 2023

This notice is to inform you of the pigmeat import quotas for the period 1 September 2023 to 30 June 2023.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 24 July 2023