Product safety: developing policy and legislation
A Code of Conduct for policy makers.
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Published in support of the Report Stage debate of the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill on 26 February. Final version, unless amendments are required following Parliament’s further consideration of the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill.
This Code of Conduct is designed to serve those developing product safety policy and legislation by giving them an overview of the different aspects of the UK safety landscape, the place of UK consumers at the heart of UK product safety policy and the collaborative processes by which we develop UK product safety policy.
It sets out the existing legislative and non-legislative ‘guardrails’ around the UK product safety framework and how the Government intends to use the proposed new powers in the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill 2024.