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The guidance notes and leaflets for traders are in the following sections:

• Animal health and welfare
• Credit
• Europe
• Food
• Specific trade, products and miscellaneous

If you are a Gloucestershire trader or resident, copies of these notes are available free of charge. Just click on the button beside the title.

 

Animal health and welfare

• Code of practice the welfare of animals in livestock markets
     Detailed outline of the Animals at Market Order 1990
• Code of practice the welfare of horses, ponies and donkeys at markets, sales and fairs
     Detailed outline of the Welfare of Horses at Markets (and Other Places of Sale) Order 1990
• Guidance on the transport of casualty farm animals
     Outline of the law on moving unfit cattle, sheep, goats and pigs
• Cattle identification, records of movement - A guide to the legal requirements

Credit

• Application for a consumer credit licence (OFT)
• Do you need a credit licence (OFT)
• Regulated and exempt agreements (OFT)
• Credit Advertising (OFT)
• Credit charges (OFT)
• Cancellable agreements (OFT)
• Non cancellable agreements (OFT)
• Matters arising during the lifetime of an agreement (OFT)
• Hire agreements (OFT)
• Restrictive Agreements (OFT)

Europe

• The single market - making it work for you (DTI)
• The single market spearhead (DTI)
• Keeping your product on the market (DTI)
• Machinery (DTI)
• Toy safety (DTI)
• Personal protective equipment (DTI)
• Non automatic weighing instruments (DTI)
• Gas appliances (DTI)
• Equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres (DTI)
• Simple pressure vessels (DTI)
• Electromagnetic compatibility (DTI)
• Electrical equipment (DTI)
• The EU eco-labelling scheme - guidelines for businesses (CBI)
• Business in Europe (DTI)
• Europe Open for Professions (DTI)
• Lifts Regulations (DTI)
• The European Union (DTI)
• Efficiency Requirements for hot water boilers (DTI)
• NEW!Efficiency Requirements for hot water boilers (DTI)

Food

• Food law inspections and your business (FSA)
• Be Allergy Aware (FSA)

Specific trade, products and miscellaneous

• A quick guide to competition and consumer protection laws that affect your business (OFT)
• Estate agency guide (OFT)
• Code of practice for traders on price indications (DTI)
• A traders' guide - law relating to supply of goods and services (DTI)
• A guide to the furniture and furnishings (fire)(safety) regulations (DTI)
• Business names and business ownership (Companies House)
• Hallmarks (Assay Office)
• Nightwear and fire (DTI)
• Do you sell domestic electrical appliances - new rules about fitted plugs (DTI)
• Green Claims Code (DETR)
• Looking into the package travel regulations (DTI)
• The anti counterfeiting provisions of the Trade Mark Act (Patent Office)
• Registering a trade mark (Patent Office)
• The General Product Safety Regulations 1994 (DTI)
• Good Law Best Practice (LACOTS)
• Unfair Standard Terms (OFT)
• Principles of Good Regulation (Better Regulation Task Force)
• Copyright (Patent Office)

Key

OFT	Office of Fair Trading
DTI	Department of Trade and Industry
MAFF	Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
CBI	Confederation of British Industry
LACOTS	Local authorities co-ordinating body on food and trading standards

Further information on these and other organisations.

 

Gloucestershire County Council, Trading Standards, Hillfield House, Denmark Road, Gloucester GL1 3LD
Telephone: (01452) 426201
 Fax: (01452) 426274

Electronic Mail: tradstds@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Internet World Wide Web: http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/glos

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