Does the CPR need CPR?
The Construction Products Regulation 2011 (CPR) is a European Union (EU) regulation harmonising performance information on construction products across the EU. I’ve written before about […]
Brexit
CE marking and UKCA marking – no deal preparations
Since our last post on Brexit, in which we mentioned the new UK conformity mark to replace the CE mark, The UK Government has updated […]
UKTGC website
The UK Timber Grading Committee now has a website: http://uktgc.org.uk Being brand new, it is still very much a work in progress and we welcome […]
Brexit & timber again
This post is an addendum to the previous one about the no-deal Brexit preparation notices – and with thanks to the TTF for the information they […]
No deal Brexit & timber
This post is just to highlight some key areas of the Brexit preparedness notices issued by the UK Government and the European Commission (EC). You […]
Brexit and standards update
It looks like we have more of an idea where we are heading, than the last time we looked at Brexit and Standardisation (here) and […]
CEN voting maths (& Brexit again)
This summer, the CEN general assembly changed its voting system by adopting criteria inspired by the qualified majority voting rules under Lisbon Treaty of the European […]
Brexit and standards
Edit November 2016: You can also read about this topic, and other issues, in the RAEng publication “Engineering a future outside the EU“. The UK […]