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Guidance for businesses and consumers on the Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.
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…
Check the tariff classification for a wine tool set in a wooden box.
Guidance for businesses on the marking of measuring container bottles, with lists of approved and inactive manufacturers’ marks.
How to apply to protect a wine name or aromatised wine name under the UK GI schemes and how to use a traditional term to describe a wine product.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of wine and aromatised wine in the UK.
Check the tariff classification for a bottle made of mechanically produced glass, in the shape of a skull.
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