Guidance and regulation

There are two objectives of this statutory instrument (SI): firstly, it makes provisions to ensure businesses have sufficient time to comply with new UK conformity assessment marking (UKCA) requirements in order to legally p…

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 19 October 2021

This instrument amends the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA), and associated regulations, to correct deficiencies in, and failures of, retained EU law to operate effectively as a result of the United Kingdom lea…

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 23 November 2018

This instrument amends UK primary legislation to address deficiencies in the three Acts which arise from the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 15 October 2018

This instrument amends two earlier product safety and metrology instruments the Department prepared for exiting the EU without a Withdrawal Agreement, to reflect the fact that the UK has now left the EU and entered a Transit…

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 3 July 2020

This instrument is one of a package of statutory instruments that will ensure that legislation governing the UK’s energy systems will function effectively in the event that the UK leaves the European Union (‘EU’) without a w…

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 4 February 2019

This instrument is being made in order to address deficiencies in retained EU law in relation to the Companies Act 2006 and supporting secondary legislation that arise from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Europ…

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 6 November 2018

In the event that the UK withdraws from the EU without a deal (‘No Deal’), the UK would not have an agreement in place to continue participating in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which would create inoperabilities…

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 5 February 2020

These Regulations are made in exercise of powers in section 8 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 to remove or replace any references to obligations under EU law that will no longer have effect after the withdrawal o…

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 14 July 2020

This instrument amends statutory instruments (SIs) 2019/269 and 2019/638. Those instruments corrected deficiencies in, and failures of, retained European Union (EU) law to operate effectively as a result of the Uni…

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 19 October 2021

This instrument is one of a package of statutory instruments that will ensure that legislation governing the UK’s energy systems will function effectively in the event that the UK leaves the European Union (‘EU’) without a w…

• From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Updated: 17 December 2018

This instrument amends provisions deriving from EU legislation (Council Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 of 25 June 2009 (“the ERIC Regulation”) , relating to the framework for a European Research Infrastructure Consortium “…

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 10 September 2018

This instrument is one of a package of statutory instruments that will ensure that legislation governing the UK’s energy systems will function effectively if the UK leaves the European Union (‘EU’) without a withdrawal agree…

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 4 February 2019

This SI makes amendments to employment law to reflect the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union (EU) in the event that there is no deal with the EU. The amendments ensure the legislation is clear by removing or amendi…

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 23 November 2018

The purpose of this instrument is to address a deficiency in the operation of retained European Union (EU) law as provided for by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Specifically this instrument removes from UK law dir…

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 23 October 2018

The purpose of this instrument is to revoke retained direct EU legislation that has no practical application in relation to the United Kingdom. This instrument covers climate and energy related legislation.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 19 March 2021

This instrument intends to address a deficiency in the operation of retained European Union (EU) law as provided for by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Specifically, this instrument revokes two Euratom Regulations …

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 22 October 2018

The Department for International Trade has published a new open general export licence for the export of dual-use items to EU member states.

• From: Export Control Joint Unit and 1 others
• Updated: 1 February 2019

Information on the provisions related to digital and data in the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 4 November 2020

This instrument amends the references to 'exit day' in the Guarantees of Origin of Electricity Produced from High-Efficiency Cogeneration (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (“the 2018 Guarantees of Origin SI”) …

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 1 July 2020

This instrument revokes the EU Trade Barriers Regulation 2015/1843. The EU Regulation will be redundant when the UK leaves the EU as it establishes EU procedures for managing trade barriers.

• From: Closed organisation: Department for International Trade
• Updated: 24 September 2018