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The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023

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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023 No. 1007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations create security requirements for manufacturers of relevant connectable products and set out conditions to be met for deemed compliance of a security requirement as part of the regulatory regime as set out in Part 1 of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (c. 46) (“the Act”).

These Regulations also set out what connectable products are excepted from the scope of the regulatory regime and further set out requirements in relation to the statement of compliance for relevant connectable products for manufacturers and importers.

Schedule 1 sets out the security requirements with which manufacturers of relevant connectable products have to comply in relation to UK consumer connectable products.

Schedule 2 sets out conditions which, if met, will deem the manufacturer compliant with the relevant corresponding security requirement.

Schedule 3 sets out the list of products to be excepted from being considered relevant connectable products for the purposes of section 4 (relevant connectable products) of the Act.

Schedule 4 sets out the minimum amount of information which is required to be stated in a statement of compliance.

A draft of these Regulations has been notified to World Trade Organisation under the United Kingdom’s obligations under the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement (notification G/TBT/N/GBR/62), as well as to the EU Commission under the Technical Standards and Regulations Directive (notification 2023/7004/XI).

A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, 100 Parliament Street, London, SW1A 2BQ and is published with an Explanatory Memorandum alongside this instrument on https://www.legislation.gov.uk.

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