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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.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Guidance for businesses and consumers on the Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.
Find out how to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are over £20 million.
Information on measuring the quantity of alcoholic product as an alcoholic product producer.
This publication details the volume of customs declarations and number of businesses declaring international trade in goods.
Use the case studies to help you decide when your goods may (or may not) go beyond insufficient production.
Find out about the requirements and obligations for warehousekeepers of motor and heating fuels in the UK.
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