Duncan, Author at Product Compliance Support

Amazon’s Responsible Person Service due to close

Following Amazon’s change to their “Responsible Person” dashboard and the migration to Amazon’s “Manage Your Compliance” Dashboard, Amazon are now looking to close Amazon’s Responsible Person Service on the 31st March 2023. This will mean that all sellers selling CE marked products into the European Community will be required to have appointed a third party […]

Acceptance of CE marking extended indefinitely

STOP PRESS: On 1 August the UK government announced that recognition of the CE marking for placing most goods on the market in Great Britain, will be extended indefinitely. This applies to the 18 regulations that fall under the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) such as electrical apparatus, machinery, gas appliances, PPE, pressure equipment […]

Brexit renegotiation urged by UK car manufacturers

The EU and UK governments are facing pressure from three major UK car producers as the deadline for tariff-free trade based on the origin of components used to build a product looms closer. Since the UK left the European Union in January 2021 in a process called Brexit, to qualify for tariff-free trade of goods […]

UK Bonfire of EU Laws: Update

On the 31st December 2023, Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, is due to become law. The Bill proposed by Jacob Rees-Mogg during the 2022-23 UK parliament session, originally proposed a blanket scrapping of all EU laws present on the UK statute books. However, due to many concerns raised by a wide variety of […]

Windsor Framework Announcement

A new framework known as the Windsor Framework has been formally announced by the UK and the EU, designed to improve trading between the Northern Ireland and the UK and the EU . In January 2020, the UK officially left the EU in a process known as Brexit. The biggest stumbling block in the trade […]

NI Protocol – Large Gap to be Bridged

Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker stated in an interview on the 23rd January 2023 that there was still a “large gap to be bridged” in order to resolve the Northern Ireland Protocol conundrum. Earlier in the month UK Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly and European Commission Vice President, Maroš Šefčovič met in London with a new […]

UK changes UKCA advice for Construction Products

The following change to advice does not change the requirement for companies to appoint an Authorised Representative for their construction products. An Authorised Representative has been a requirement since the UK left the EU on the 31st January 2021. This advice only refers to the requirements of applying the UKCA mark to construction products. This […]

UKCA Marking Deadline Extended by UK Government

The UK Government have extended the deadline to have the UKCA mark in place on products being sold in the UK for two years until 1st January 2025. Previously the deadline was 1st January 2023. Please note this extension does not affect the requirement for, or responsibilities for having an Authorised Representative in the UK […]

Northern Ireland EU customs database imminent

Part of the proposal during the Brexit negotiations, and introduced to circumvent the Northern Ireland border problems was for the UK to provide the EU with equipment and facilities to access detailed information about the movement of goods between the British mainland and Northern Ireland. This is now due to be resolved with the introduction […]

The UK’s EU Red Tape “bonfire”

Liz Truss, the newly elected Prime Minister of the UK vowed to light a bonfire of EU red tape in order to remove the remaining EU laws automatically transferred to British law following Brexit, from the British statute book. The announcement was similar to one made by the former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, earlier in […]

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