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How to work out the weight of plastic packaging components and each material used to make them, to check if you must register for Plastic Packaging Tax and include them on your return.
Industry Minister Chris McDonald's speech at the ADS Annual Dinner, 27 January 2026.
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…
This page describes standard package designs for Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW).
Type approval, individual (IVA), motorcycle single vehicle approval, voluntary approval, certificate of initial fitness, accessibility approval, fees, forms, replacement certificates
Find out what you need to do when making a full declaration to send goods from the UK.
The difficulty of achieving optimum moisture content for the compaction of soils in arid areas and past experience at low moisture contents
Steps you must follow when importing vehicles into the UK, including making an import declaration, paying VAT and duty and telling HMRC using the NOVA service.
Experimental Design and Research Matrix Report
The requirements for packaging LHGW
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