Shortages of cardboard and timber have created extra pressures on the sector.

Government to allow businesses to continue using European CE certification for another year.

UKCA mark deadline pushed back to 1 January 2023.

January deadline is scuppering UK supply chains as they reel from the pandemic.

PSA Part’s Sales Director, Nick Walsh looks at how Brexit is impacting cross European border trade for the tech channel and how companies can look to address these challenges.

The end of the transition period was merely a staging post within a process that will be long with us, says Chris Grey.

All products with a CE mark – including structural steel, insulation, glass and cladding – need retesting to meet new UK standard.

Current CE mark system due to be replaced at beginning of next year.

Former NBS boss says ‘not achievable’ to swap CE markings for UK version by end of year.

Former NBS boss says time involved to swap CE marking for UK version has not been thought through.

Minister is warned Britain does not have enough testing capacity for the scale of the problem.

Construction Products Association moots extension to transition period on CE markings.

As the Brexit transition period comes to an end, leading compliance authority Bureau Veritas is encouraging manufacturers to get ready to make the switch from CE marking to UKCA in order to continue to sell products in the British market.

Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?

The timetable for the major new controls that have already been imposed and those that have been delayed

From 1st January 2021 the UK is no longer a member of the EU and changes have been made to the regulation and marking of construction products in the UK. The UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark is the new GB product marking used for goods being placed on the market in England, Scotland and Wales, which replaces the CE mark. For Northern Ireland the CE or CE and UK(NI) mark will be required.

Speaking to a variety of sources, including the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Fire Industry Association (FIA), British Security Industry Association (BSIA) and the European Fire and Security Group (EFSG), Hunter Seymour assesses the impact of the new UKCA marking scheme – replacing CE marking in the UK following Brexit – on the fire and security sectors.