Guidance

Regulators: professional guidance and tools

Resources for regulators.

• From: Office for Product Safety and Standards
• Published: 17 April 2019
• Last updated: 27 October 2026 — See all updates

Guidance

• Regulators’ Code – 2014
• Growth duty – 2017
• Primary Authority – 2017
• Regulation 765/2008 on Accreditation and Market Surveillance – 2020
• EU Regulation 2019/1020 on Market Surveillance and Compliance of Products – 2021
• EU Regulation 2023/988 on General Product Safety – 2024

Regulatory delivery

• Regulatory delivery model (ODP, 340 KB) – Outline presentation
• Core competencies – Guidance, 2016
• Local regulation: outcomes and impacts – Toolkit, 2010

Product risk guidance and resources

• OPSS product risk guidance and resources - find OPSS guidance, methodologies and resources to support product safety risk assessment and management.

Better Business for All

• Better Business for All – Toolkit, 2011-2017

Trading Standards

• Product safety – Resources for local regulators
• Legal metrology – Resources for local regulators
• Regulation of age restricted products and services –- Code of practice, 2013

• Last updated: 27 October 2026
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  1. 27 October 2026

     Link added to OPSS product risk guidance and resources.

  2. 7 January 2025

     Link added to guidance on EU Regulation 2023/988 on General Product Safety.

  3. 30 January 2023

     Link added to the Product Safety Risk Assessment Methodology (PRISM).

  4. 17 April 2019

     First published.