Useful links
Below is a list of Trading Standards useful links.
- Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) (opens in a new window)
- Anti-Counterfeiting Group (opens in a new window)
- British Board of Film Classification (opens in a new window)
- British Standards Institution (BSI) (opens in a new window)
- Cabinet Office (opens in a new window)
- Central Office of Information (COI) (opens in a new window) - this site contains all Government press releases
- Charity Commission (opens in a new window)
- Citizens Advice (opens in a new window)
- Companies House (opens in a new window)
- Consumers' Association (opens in a new window) (Publishers of 'Which?' magazine)
- Consumer Direct (opens in a new window)
- Crown Prosecution Service (opens in a new window)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (opens in a new window)
- Department for Transport (opens in a new window)
- Department of Health (opens in a new window)
- Directgov (opens in a new window) - UK Government Information Portal
- Directorate General 24 of the European Commission (opens in a new window)
- Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) (opens in a new window) - formerly the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
- European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) (opens in a new window)
- Environment Agency (opens in a new window)
- Euro (opens in a new window)
- European Commission (opens in a new window)
- European Co-operation in Legal Metrology (WELMEC) (opens in a new window)
- European Parliament (opens in a new window) (Multi-lingual service)
- Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) (opens in a new window)
- Finance Industry Standards Associatiom (FISA) (opens in a new window)
- Financial Ombudsman Service (opens in a new window)
- Financial Services Authority (FSA) (opens in a new window)
- Food Standards Agency (opens in a new window)
- HM Revenue and Customs (opens in a new window)
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (opens in a new window)
- Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INPEN) (opens in a new window)
- Information Commissioner's Office (opens in a new window) - responsible for data protection and freedom of information
- Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (opens in a new window)
- Intellectual Property Office (opens in a new window)
- International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML) (opens in a new window)
- Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS) (opens in a new window)
- Local authority website which refer to Trading Standards (opens in a new window)
- Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MDA) (opens in a new window)
- National Association of Estate Agents (opens in a new window)
- National Consumer Council (NCC) (opens in a new window)
- National Federation of Consumer Groups (NFCG) (opens in a new window)
- National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) (opens in a new window)
- Office of Fair Trading (OFT) (opens in a new window)
- Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) (opens in a new window) - access copies of the latest Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments
- OFTEL Advisory Committees (opens in a new window)
- Phonepayplus (opens in a new window) (formerly known as ICSTIS)
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) (opens in a new window)
- Stationery Office (opens in a new window)
- Trading Standards Central (opens in a new window)
- United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) (opens in a new window)
- UK Parliament (opens in a new window)
- US Consumer Product Safety Commission (opens in a new window) - United States Federal Regulatory Agency
- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) (opens in a new window)
