Resources
This page provides links to guidance, toolkits and other resources.
Quarterly Online Briefing
Product Safety: UPP Batteries withdrawal notice
Primary Authority: Reminder – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day; business seeking partnership
Wider Updates: Department for Business and Trade (DBT) announcement – recognition of CE marking; Request to share intelligence - ecodesign and energy labelling issues with lava style lamps
Product Safety: UPP Batteries withdrawal notice
Primary Authority: Reminder – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day; business seeking partnership
Wider Updates: Department for Business and Trade (DBT) announcement – recognition of CE marking; Request to share intelligence - ecodesign and energy labelling issues with lava style lamps
- Head of service
How to place CE marking on your product, how to identify UK requirements relating to construction products, and how to apply to be a UK Notified Body or Technical Assessment Body.
- Construction Products Regulations
Guidance providing practical information for placing construction products on the Northern Ireland market and unfettered access provisions.
- Construction Products Regulations
Guidance providing practical information for placing construction products on the GB market.
- Construction Products Regulations
Product Safety: E-Scooters, E-bikes and conversion kits; Product Safety Database user research survey
Primary Authority: Primary Authority training dates 2024; businesses seeking partnerships reminder
Primary Authority: Primary Authority training dates 2024; businesses seeking partnerships reminder
- Head of service
Wider Updates: Quarterly Online Briefing, Regulators’ Companion – Your Views
Product Safety: Reminder – OPSS Digital Team seeking Product Safety Database (PSD) user research and feedback, PSD updates, Publication of the OPSS Delivery Report 2022-23, OPSS Sampling Protocol and Pilot
Primary Authority: Reminder – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day; Businesses seeking partnerships; Calls to join newly-formed Primary Authority Coffee Shop panel
Product Safety: Reminder – OPSS Digital Team seeking Product Safety Database (PSD) user research and feedback, PSD updates, Publication of the OPSS Delivery Report 2022-23, OPSS Sampling Protocol and Pilot
Primary Authority: Reminder – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day; Businesses seeking partnerships; Calls to join newly-formed Primary Authority Coffee Shop panel
- Head of service
A detailed summary of the arrangements in place to make notifications outside the UK, but the initial obligation is on a business to meet its overseas notification obligations.
- Market Surveillance Authority
- PSD
Product Safety: Designated Standard for PPE with restriction
Primary Authority: Date for your Diary – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day, Primary Authority Training Dates 2024, Businesses seeking Primary Authority partner
Wider Updates: Disposal of single use vapes - video guidance, Deadline extended for DBT Smarter Regulation and regulatory landscape consultation
Primary Authority: Date for your Diary – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day, Primary Authority Training Dates 2024, Businesses seeking Primary Authority partner
Wider Updates: Disposal of single use vapes - video guidance, Deadline extended for DBT Smarter Regulation and regulatory landscape consultation
- Head of service
The Office for Product Safety and Standards delivery report sets out how to protect consumers through robust product regulation, working with local trading standards officers and delivering with partners.
- OPSS
Legal Metrology: announcement on changes to permitted sizes for prepacked wine; publication of the Government response to the units of measurement consultation
- Head of service
Product Safety: sampling protocol pilot; gas hob corrective action; publication of research;
Primary Authority: date for your diary – Primary Authority shared learning day
Primary Authority: date for your diary – Primary Authority shared learning day
- Head of service
Advice issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Vapes
Guidance issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Vapes
Product Safety: OPSS issues important safety message; OPSS Digital Team seeking Product Safety Database user research and feedback
Primary Authority: Business seeking Primary Authority Partner
Quarterly Live Briefing January 2024
Primary Authority: Business seeking Primary Authority Partner
Quarterly Live Briefing January 2024
- Head of service
Product Safety: Advice on Li-ion batteries – Storage and Disposal
Primary Authority: Business Seeking Primary Authority Partner
Wider Updates: Consultation on Growth Duty
Primary Authority: Business Seeking Primary Authority Partner
Wider Updates: Consultation on Growth Duty
- Head of service
Product Safety – Community Focused Public Safety Funding; Product Safety Database annual reports; product-related fire incident notifications procedure – e-Bikes and e- Scooters Request;
Primary Authority – businesses seeking Primary Authority partner.
Primary Authority – businesses seeking Primary Authority partner.
- Head of service
Product Safety: Designation of the Electric Toy Standard, Community Focused Public Safety Funding
Primary Authority: Business Seeking PA Partnership
Primary Authority: Business Seeking PA Partnership
- Head of service