Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023.
British Hallmarking Council
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The British Hallmarking Council's Touchstone 2024 award for trading standards teams is open for submissions.
Winners demonstrate support for hallmarking excellence and help to protect consumers.
Hallmarking was in the spotlight at the Chartered Trading Standards Conference in Birmingham in June 2023 with the presentation of the Touchstone Award.
Two jewellery businesses with an emphasis on creating bespoke commissions are the joint winners of the HALO Award 2023.
Permitted descriptions for gold plated silver articles at point of sale in the UK.
The British Hallmarking Council's HALO award 2023 is open for submissions.
Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022.
Review of the British Hallmarking Council’s (BHC) 2022 achievements and its aims for 2023.
The standing orders of the British Hallmarking Council Education and Enforcement Committee approved in April 2023.
Intellectual property protection specialists WRi Group win the Touchstone Special Recognition Award 2022.
Trading Standards teams can apply for the annual Touchstone Award.
Trading Standards teams can apply for the annual Touchstone Award.
The Hallmarking Awareness and Learning Online Award 2022 is closed to applications.
The British Hallmarking Council and National Association of Jewellers announce the winners of the inaugural Hallmarking Awareness and Learning Online Award.
Information from the UK's assay offices giving guidance on the Hallmarking Act 1973.
This guidance is to help you know how to recognise a hallmark and who to contact about your consumer rights.
A review of the British Hallmarking Council’s (BHC) 2021 achievements and its aims for 2022.
The latest standing orders of the British Hallmarking Council approved in April 2022.
The latest standing orders of the British Hallmarking Council Technical Committee approved in October 2020.
The standing orders of the British Hallmarking Council Remuneration Committee approved in April 2022.
The British Hallmarking Council and National Association of Jewellers announce that the HALO Award 2022 is open for jewellery retailers to apply.
The Award will be presented to the retailer who has run the most effective online initiative relating to the display of the new format Dealers Notice and education surrounding UK hallmarking.
Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021.
Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021.
The British Hallmarking Council and National Association of Jewellers announce that the HALO Award 2022 is open for jewellery retailers to apply.
Trading Standards teams can apply for the annual Touchstone Award.
The dedication and inventiveness of the winners of the 2021 Touchstone Award highlight the importance of hallmarking enforcement, writes Ken Daly in the Journal of Trading Standards.
How to comply with hallmarking law if your business supplies items described as precious metal (gold, silver, platinum or palladium).
David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, has made 4 new appointments to the British Hallmarking Council.
New Diamond Jubilee hallmark is expected to inspire commemorative jewellery and silverware.
The notice produced by the British Hallmarking Council is available here.
Palladium is now officially a precious metal for fine jewellery with the introduction of a compulsory UK hallmark from 1 January 2010.
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