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Guidance
National regulation: enforcement services
- From:
- Regulatory Delivery, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for Transport, and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Part of:
- Business regulation
- Published:
- 20 September 2016
- Last updated:
- 10 October 2017, see all updates
How Regulatory Delivery contributes to the national regulatory landscape.
Regulatory Delivery provides enforcement services on behalf of government departments including BEIS, Defra and DfT.
We are working towards providing a regulatory environment in which businesses have the confidence to invest and grow and citizens and communities are properly protected. We do this by taking a risk based and proportionate approach to our enforcement activities and by operating under the The Regulators’ Code.
What we enforce
Compliance and guidance on the following areas of legislation can be found on the following links:
Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources
Batteries and accumulators (placing on the market) regulations
Ecodesign of energy related products regulations
End of life vehicles regulations
Energy information regulations
European Union timber regulation
Forest law enforcement, governance and trade licensing
Heat network metering and billing regulations
Noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors regulations
Guidance for businesses we regulate
These four documents define what you can expect from us, specify our approach to dealing with non-compliance, explain how you can complain or comment about our service, and clarify your statutory and non-statutory rights to challenge or appeal our regulatory actions or decisions.
RD enforcement: service standards
RD enforcement: enforcement policy
RD enforcement: complaints policy
RD enforcement: challenges and appeals guidance
An overview of what we do is also provided in our Enforcement services: summary (PDF, 178KB, 2 pages) .
Non-qualifying regulatory provisions
Regulatory Delivery has produced this Summary of non-qualifying regulatory provisions (PDF, 82.3KB, 2 pages) under the Business Impact Target. It was submitted to the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) in March 2017. The RPC confirmed that none of the measures or activities presented in the summary should be considered as qualifying regulatory provisions for the purposes of the Business Impact Target.
Contact us
Regulatory Delivery publishes a range of information and guidance on the legislation that we are responsible for enforcing. If you have a specific enquiry about compliance we recommend that you complete the online enquiry form, choose the relevant legislation and follow the on screen instructions.
Alternatively you can contact the Regulatory Delivery helpdesk on 0121 345 1218.
It is open:
- Monday to Thursday 09:00 to 17:00
- Friday 09:00 to 16:00
Or in writing to:
Regulatory Delivery
Lower Ground Floor
Victoria Square House
Victoria Square
Birmingham
B2 4AJ
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Document information
Published: 20 September 2016
Updated: 10 October 2017
- Enforcement services summary leaflet added.
- Four documents added on Regulatory Delivery's approach to business regulation: our service standards, enforcement policy, complaints policy, and challenges and appeals guidance.
- First published.