EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Conformity Assessment (Mutual Recognition Agreements) and Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/730) (“the 2021 Regulations”) to include Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC (EUR 2011/305) in Schedule 1, making it a specified Regulation for the purposes of the 2021 Regulations.
This amendment is required in relation to the Protocol on the mutual acceptance of the results of conformity assessment to the Agreement on Trade Continuity between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Canada (“the Agreement”) which requires the United Kingdom to accept conformity assessment procedures performed and conformity assessment results issued by a Canadian designated conformity assessment body in respect of construction products.
The Agreement was published in Command Paper 351 (“CP 351”). An electronic copy of CP 351 can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukcanada-agreement-on-trade-continuity-cs-canada-no12020. Hard copies are available upon request from the Regulatory Environment Team, Department of International Trade, King Charles Street, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2AH, United Kingdom.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.