Guidance
Business regulation: guidance and tools
Resources for businesses.
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill
Follow the progress of the Bill – UK Parliament website
General
- Border controls for non-food products
- Placing certain products on the Northern Ireland market
- OPSS coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance for business and local authorities
Product safety
- Product safety advice for businesses
- Product safety for businesses: A to Z of industry guidance
- Product safety: non-disclosure clauses in compensation settlement agreements
- Business notifications of unsafe and noncompliant products
Weights and measures
- Weights and measures: business guidance
- Weights and measures: Legal Metrology Delivery
- Approved manufacturers: conformity assessement
- Applying a crown symbol to pint glasses
Conformity assessment bodies (CABs)
- UK conformity assessment
- Apply to be a UK CAB for product safety and metrology
- Using a subcontractor
Primary Authority
Enforcement services
Guidance on regulations enforced by the Office for Product Safety and Standards:
- Alternative fuel labelling
- Alternative fuels infrastructure
- Batteries and waste batteries
- Construction products
- Consumer connectable product security
- Eco-design of energy consuming products
- Electric vehicle smart charge points
- End-of-life vehicles
- Energy information
- Heat networks
- Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing (ABS)
- Noise emissions from outdoor equipment
- Public charge points
- Restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS)
- Timber and FLEGT licences
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
Gas and electricity meters
Standardisation, accreditation and the UK’s National Quality Infrastructure
Updates to this page
Published 17 April 2019
Last updated 29 April 2024 + show all updates
Last updated 29 April 2024 + show all updates
-
OPSS News April 2024 published.
-
OPSS News March 2024 published
-
OPSS News February 2024 published.
-
OPSS news January 2024 added.
-
Publication OPSS News January.
-
First published.