Refining the law to better protect consumers
The Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025 enables the Government to amend regulations to reflect how products are bought and used today and in the future.
Economic growth requires an effective regulatory framework, to protect consumers and enable UK businesses to innovate. The UK is a global leader in the regulation of product safety, which is essential to every person in the country.
The Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025 enables the UK’s wide and technical product regulation framework to be kept up to date. Its new powers will be applied by the Government to address modern safety issues and technological developments, harness opportunities to create economic growth, and ensure a level playing field between the high street and online marketplaces.
The Government published a Code of Conduct clarifying how it intends to use its new powers. This sets out the statutory and non-statutory controls in place to ensure that regulations made under the Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025 are proportionate and evidence based.
Read the Code of Conduct for policy makers.
Some of the challenges raised by the stakeholders who responded to the Product Safety Review consultation run between August and October 2023 can also be tackled through the Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025.
Read the Government response to the consultation and next steps.
Updates to this page
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Page updated following Royal Assent of the Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025.
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First published.