Manchester City Council

Business Advice - Guidance Notes and Leaflets

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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 an Manchester City Council trader or resident, copies of these notes are available free of charge.

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Animal health and welfare

• Code of practice the welfare of animals in livestock markets (DEFRA)
     Detailed outline of the Animals at Market Order 1990

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Credit

• Do you need a credit licence? (OFT)
• Application for a consumer credit licence (OFT)
• Regulated and exempt agreements (OFT)
• Credit Advertising (OFT)
• Credit Charges and APR (OFT)
• Hire Agreements (OFT)

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Europe

• The single market - making it work for you (BERR)
• The single market spearhead (BERR)
• Conformity assessment (BERR)
• Keeping your product on the market (BERR)
• Machinery (BERR)

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Food

• Success with a Small Food Business (MAFF)
• Food Safety Act and You: Guide for the Food Industry (FSA)
• Food Safety Act and You: Guide for Caterers & Their Employees (MAFF)
• Be Allergy Aware: Advice for Catering Establishments (FSA)
• Colours in Food Regulations and You (MAFF)
• Food Safety (FSA: Foodsense No 1)
• About Food Additives (FSA: Foodsense No 2)
• Understanding Food Labels (FSA: Foodsense No 3)
• Food Protection (FSA: Foodsense No 4)
• Chemicals in Food: Managing the Risks (MAFF)
• Preventing Food Fraud (MAFF)
• The Food Standards Agency (DEFRA)
• No 1: Pre-packed Food (MCC)
• No 2: Food sold at Catering Establishments (MCC)
• No 3: Bread & Flour Regulations (MCC)
• No 4: Burgers (MCC)
• No 5: Meat Pies, including Puddings, Sausage Rolls & Potato/Meat Pies (MCC)
• No 6: Sausages (MCC)
• No 7: Flour Confectionery (MCC)
• No 8: Pastes, Pates & Spreads (MCC)
• No 9: Cured Whole Meat Products (MCC)
• No 10: Uncured Whole Meat Products (MCC)
• No 11: Chopped Meat, Corned Meat & Luncheon Meat (MCC)
• No 12: Miscellaneous Meat Products (MCC)
• No 13: Non pre-packed Mince Meat (MCC)
• No 14: Labelling of pre-packed Meat & Poultry (MCC)

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Specific trade, products and miscellaneous

• Fair Trading Act - Part III assurances (OFT)
• Estate agency guide (OFT)
• Code of practice for traders on price indications (BERR)
• A guide to the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (BERR)
• A traders' guide - law relating to supply of goods and services (BERR)
• A guide to the furniture and furnishings (fire)(safety) regulations (BERR)
• Business names and business ownership (Companies House)

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Key

• OFT:Office of Fair Trading
• BERR:Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
• DEFRA:Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• CBI:Confederation of British Industry
• LACORS:Local authorities co-ordinating body on regulatory services

Further information on these and other organisations.

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