UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown

Comments

• egrets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funnily enough, the image the Guardian have used is not the CE marking, it’s the so-called China Export mark that means to gull buyers into thinking the product is CE assessed.

  source

  • Aiastarei@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a myth tho

    source

    • fluke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Common man, you can’t just come along and counter a claim with ‘no it’s not’ on a platform like this for a topic that isn’t so clearly common sense.

      For anyone interested, further reading here: cemarking.net/chinese-export/

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • eendjes@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tho finding CE marking on goods that shouldn’t have them (typically from china bought via ebay/ali/etc) is not particularly hard.

      But yes, even my company has had mishaps with the CE logo on our products, and in that case it’s not because we are trying to be misleading. The primary reason in our case was that the laser printer software is shite and sometimes just changes things for “fun”.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brexit is the turd that will never flush.

  source
• eendjes@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m having trouble finding a government source on this, as it would be useful for us to know if we need the UKCA mark or not after all on our export products.

  But I’m frankly not surprised, there’s so many regulatory things regarding the UK that’s just in limbo, making it really annoying for us to actually follow the rules. Our company has more than once considered just pulling out of that market.

  source

  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The good news is that now we have to follow CE requirements on product safety with precisely zero say on the rules because we’re out of the EU. Great job Brexiters.

    source
  • sc00ter@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With it being a concern for my work I did a bit of digging and found the gov.uk press release which doesnt really have any extra detail.

    source

    • eendjes@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Score! Yeah, it’s a concern for mine too. Thanks for sharing!

      source
• peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Things have had UKCA on them for years already now, I’m surprised they’re backtracking this late in the game.

  source