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Trading Standards also work with APHA and DEFRA to ensure disease controls are in place protecting residents and agriculture in the UK. Recent priorities include prevention of sales of counterfeit goods, sales of tobacco and alcohol to under-age buyers, and action to prevent exploitation of vulnerable consumers by scams and doorstep crime.
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) is a professional association which represents and trains trading standards professionals working in local authorities, business and consumer sectors and in central government in the UK and overseas.
In February 2011, Safestyle UK became the first company to be prosecuted under the regulations. In an action [1] brought by North Lincolnshire Council Trading Standards Department they were found guilty under paragraph 25 (ignoring a request not to return) [2] and fined £4000 with £18,000 costs for repeatedly calling on a consumer in Scunthorpe.
The Department of Prices and Consumer Protection was established in 1974. This was the first time a government department's title made reference to consumer protection. In 2011 Consumer Minister Edward Davey announced plans within a policy document called Better Choices, Better Deals: Consumers Powering Growth to ensure that businesses would provide key information to their customers on how ...
The act is currently enforced by the 200 Trading Standards offices managed by local authorities around the country. Definitions of units of measurements and the technical equipment relating to weights and measures are provided by the National Measurement Office , an agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills .
BSI Group headquarters building in Gunnersbury, West London, featuring the BSI Group logo. BSI was founded as the Engineering Standards Committee in London in 1901. [5] [2] It subsequently extended its standardization work and became the British Engineering Standards Association in 1918, adopting the name British Standards Institution in 1931 after receiving a Royal Charter in 1929. [2]
Category for Trading standards - legally enforced municipal consumer protection. Pages in category "Trading standards" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a UK-based independent body founded on 9 June 1998, [1] which brings together companies, trade unions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to ensure compliance with international labour standards in the global supply chains of member companies. [2] Minimum ethical standards are set out in the ETI ...