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Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…
Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…
Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…
Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…
You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
Find out which licence and fuel you need for agricultural vehicles and which tax and operator's licence exemptions might apply to you.
Ensuring you get what you pay for.
How catch limits are set and how to get involved in setting them. This includes current catch limits and closed fishing areas.
This document contains the following information: National Weights and Measures Laboratory annual report and accounts 2004 to 2005.
Guidance on Ministry of Justice arms length bodies' spending over £25,000 data November 2013.
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
As of today,20 May 2019, World Metrology Day, the kilogram will no longer be defined by a physical object
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