Guidance

Consumer rights if there's no Brexit deal

How consumers’ rights would be protected if the UK leaves the EU with no deal.

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 12 October 2018

This publication was withdrawn on 14 August 2019

This page has been replaced by a newer version. Go to the following pages for the latest information:

• Consumer rights and business (including cross border enforcement and ADR/ODR)
• Buying things from Europe (including package holidays bought from EU companies)
• Buying a timeshare in Europe
• Textile labelling
• Footwear labelling

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If the UK leaves the EU on 31 October 2019 without a deal, find out how this would affect:

• consumer protection and cross-border protection
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)
• package travel
• timeshare
• textile labelling
• footwear labelling

This notice provides guidance to businesses and consumers setting out the UK approach to the consumer legislative framework if the UK leaves the EU with no agreement in place.

Last updated 9 January 2019

An Explanatory Memorandum was published in autumn 2018 alongside the Statutory Instrument to make the necessary changes to UK legislation.

Published 12 October 2018