Trading Standards and Enforcement

Trading Standards aim to protect consumers whilst ensuring businesses operating in Glasgow comply with consumer protection legislation.

The priority for the service is to ensure that the public are protected from unsafe goods and that both consumers and business are protected from unscrupulous business practices.

Trading Standards Enforcement

The enforcement of trading standards laws is carried out in a variety of ways:

• We visit trade premises including manufacturers, retailers and importers. These visits are programmed according to a risk assessment.
• We ensure that weighing and measuring equipment is accurate and is used properly, goods are safe and correctly labelled, prices are displayed and descriptions used are true.
• We test and sample goods and services for safety, description and quantity.
• We carry out special projects and operations to deal with rogue traders and specific problem areas.
• We investigate alleged breaches of criminal legislation.

We deal with general trading standards enforcement, which includes:

• Prices
• Unfair Trading
• Weights and measures
• Consumer product safety
• Counterfeiting
• Age restricted products

We also deal with a number of specific areas of enforcement, including:

• The supply and servicing of motor vehicles
• The supply of fertilisers and animal feeding stuffs
• The supply and storage of petrol, diesel and other motor fuels on filling stations
• The storage and supply of fireworks and other explosives
• The supply of tobacco products to underage people as well as tobacco advertising

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• Advice and Compliance Privacy Statement
• Application for Petroleum Storage Certificate Privacy statement
• ​​​​​​​Application for Storage of Explosives or Fireworks Privacy Statement

Related Links

• Advice Direct Scotland (opens new window)
• The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (opens new window)
• Delivery Law (opens new window)