Business Advice

Guidance Notes

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 Medway 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 (DEFRA)
     Detailed outline of the Animals at Market Order 1990
• Code of practice the welfare of horses, ponies and donkeys at markets, sales and fairs (DEFRA)
     Detailed outline of the Welfare of Horses at Markets (and Other Places of Sale) Order 1990
• Guidance on the transport of casualty farm animals (DEFRA)
     Outline of the law on moving unfit cattle, sheep, goats and pigs
• Pig identification, records of movement (DEFRA)
     Detailed outline of legal obligations under the 1995 Order
• Cattle identification, records of movement - A guide to the legal requirements (DEFRA)

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)
• Conformity assessment (DTI)
• Keeping your product on the market (DTI)
• Machinery (DTI)
• Toy safety (DTI)
• Construction products (DTI)
• Personal protective equipment (DTI)
• Non automatic weighing instruments (DTI)
• Gas appliances (DTI)
• Active implantable medical devices (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)

Food

• The Food Standards Agency (MAFF)
• Food Safety Act and you - guide for caterers and their employees (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Food Safety Act and you - guide for farmers and growers (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Food Safety Act and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Food Labelling Regs - Revision of the Guidance Notes (MAFF)
• Meat products - 1992 and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Monitoring our food and nutrition (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Nutrition labelling (TSS)
• Pesticides and food (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Scientific research and development. The composition, quality and safety of food (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Sweeteners in food regulations 1995 and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Colours in food regulations 1995 and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
• New food additives legislation and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Miscellaneous food additives regulations 1995 and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
• Food law inspections and your business (MAFF/Dept of Health)
• New rules for selling non-foods loose by measurement (DTI)
• New rules for food labelling and selling (DTI)
• What foods should carry a 'use by' date? (MAFF Guidance notes)
• Guidance notes on nutrition labelling (MAFF)
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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 (DTI)
• A guide to the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (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)
• Implementing BS EN ISO 9000 a guide for small firms (DTI)
• Good Law Best Practice (LACOTS)
• Unfair Standard Terms (OFT)
• Principles of Good Regulation (Better Regulation Task Force)
• Copyright (Patent Office)

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Further information on these and other organisations.

Medway Council, Trading Standards Team,
Compass Centre, Chatham Maritime, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4YH

Telephone: 01634 333555    Fax: 01634 333182   
Electronic Mail: consumer.protection@medway.gov.uk
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