The UK Government aims to reduce regulation which stifles enterprise and industry.  The message appears to be that every regulation highlighted will be abolished unless visitors to their website www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/hallmarking express sufficient good reasons to convince Ministers that this particular regulation must be kept.

Hallmarking is on of the topics which the population is invited to air their views from now until 5th May 2011.  It is important to the consumer for the current and future UK Jewellery Industry to maintain hallmarking as a statutory independent service.

We urgent you to click here and express your views now, before hallmarking is deregulated and 700 years of even handed consumer protection is brought to an end - not because people don't want it, but by default.

ACT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE