Afternoon All!
Further to the UKCA program(me!) emails over the last few days, you might like to take a look at this blog from CMS Cameron McKenna: “Retained EU Legislation Bill: Part 2: Will the Bill survive the new Government” https://www.cms-lawnow.com/ealerts/2022/11/retained-eu-legislation-bill-part-2-will-the-bill-survive-the-new-government?cc_lang=en This proposed UK Bill is all about the overall situation regarding continued legal implementation, or not, of a huge amount of EU legislation that was adopted into UK law before we left the EU – the number of regs etc., (nearly 4,000) that would have to be reviewed, updated &/or changed, or totally rescinded, and the huge load that this would place on the UK Civil Service at a time when they already under considerable strain with “current issues” and so on. However, the minister that was driving the Bill forward has now “left” the Government (thank goodness – I and many others never liked him!) and it looks like the whole thing could be dropped and the current proposed timescales for completing the task (Dec 2023) might now stretch out to 2026. How that would affect the UKCA regime implementation is not addressed but it might also be affected – but who knows ATM? BTW: For anyone with an interest in the whole UK/EU/”World in general” legislation “scene” I suggest that you go to the main CMS Cameron Mckenna “Law Now” webpages and sign up to that service (see https://www.cms-lawnow.com/subscription , and choose the countries and subject areas in which you are specifically interested. Then you should get their frequent, and often quite detailed, emailed blogs on those areas. By sending them, the company hopes to get you to use their legal services for more detailed assistance (for which you would, of course, pay!) but the Law-Now service itself is free - and well-worth subscribing to if my many years of using it is anything to go by (NB: I have ABSOLUTELY NO affiliation with the company or any of the paid-for services it claims to provide!) John E Allen W. London, UK From: Doug Powell <[email protected]> Sent: 07 November 2022 22:54 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PSES] Pending Regulatory Change to UKCA Program Rich, et al, I've had the opposite experience. On a particular occasion, a field sales person was on the site of a notably abrasive customer. Initially, that customer was a little cagey saying "Can you see the difference, and what's wrong with yours?" Eventually, after playing the game for a time, that customer pointed out how the competitor's product had one more safety marking that ours did not. While I haven't seen this sort of behaviour very often, I have seen a similar attitude prevail for many years. Unfortunately, a few sales people, whom I know and call my friends, have sometimes complained about the lack of value that product certs bring to the table; then complain about delays in time-to-market, and the added cost of goods sold... And I have the evidence to prove that a safety redesign of an existing "low cost" product family with multiple models and configurations allowed us to further reduce the COGS by an additional 6% overall. So that argument does not hold water with me. It has always been my belief that product certs are not so much a hit to productivity and value, but they do open markets that would otherwise be closed. And this along with evidence of due diligence, and ultimately the safety of the end user are their true value. A singular focus on profitability in the short term is a disservice to everyone. -Doug Douglas E Powell Laporte, Colorado USA <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/coloradocomplianceguy/> LinkedIn (UTC -06:00) Mountain Time (US-MDT) On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:39 PM Richard Nute <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: “It’s a fact the CE mark adds way more cost than the return on investment of performance improvement.” Reminds me of a marketing manager saying to me that safety (and, I assume, safety certification and EMC) do not generate sales. Rich - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. 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