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Product safety: developing policy and legislation

A Code of Conduct for policy makers.

• From: Office for Product Safety and Standards
• Published: 24 February 2025
• Last updated: 22 July 2025 — See all updates

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Product safety: checks and balances on developing policy and legislation

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Published in support of the Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025.

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 new powers in the Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025.

Published 24 February 2025

Last updated 22 July 2025 + show all updates

1. 22 July 2025

   Updated version published following Royal Assent for the Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025.

2. 24 February 2025

   First published.