Brexit Updates – Joint CIA/Cefic factsheet on Brexit and REACH

24 June 2021

The Institute of Export and International Trade is organising a Q&A webinar ‘Six months since the end of the transition period – what we have learned?’ on 30 June 2021 at 15.00-15.45.

01 June 2021

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) issued a communication to hauliers about changes to NI-GB exports into effect from 16 May 2021

27 May 2021

DIT is launching a process that will allow businesses in the UK and Crown Dependencies to apply for temporary reductions in the UK Global Tariff rate for specific products.

26 May 2021

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has now completed its review of environmental claims, publishing on 21 May 2021 draft guidance on the applicability of consumer protection law to environmental claims.

14 May 2021

Important information for cosmetics suppliers or brands using the self-tanning ingredient dihydroxyacetone (DHA)

10 May 2021

CTPA has made available the ‘CTPA Guide on Post‐Brexit Trade: Great Britain, Northern Ireland & the European Union’, developed in close collaboration with the UK Government Department Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) and others.

04 May 2021

Actions for GB-based companies selling chemicals (on their own or within mixtures) to GB which are already registered under EU REACH

22 April 2021

UK REACH includes extensive transitional provisions to allow chemicals that were already on the market and registered under EU REACH before 1 January 2021, the end of the Brexit transition period. The first deadline of these transitional provisions is 30 April 2021, which is soon approaching.

12 April 2021

The CMA is reviewing the retained Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) to inform its recommendation to the Secretary of State for BEIS on replacing the retained VBER when it expires in May 2022.

09 April 2021

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) regularly issues news and advice for companies to help them make their advertising compliant with the rules.

17 March 2021

On 11 March 2021 the UK Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) launched a call for evidence on the new UK product safety framework.

16 March 2021

On 11 March 2021, the UK Government announced a new timeline for the implementation of import controls for goods.