I said that I would break the ‘summer recess’ of this blog if a Brexit event of sufficient interest or importance occurred and it has, with the government’s announcement today of an “indefinite extension to the use of CE [Conformité Européenne] marking for British businesses”.

BSI will continue to adopt and update European standards (ENs) into the UK national catalogue. UK adoptions of ENs are identical in technical content to all other European standards used by CEN and CENELEC members.