Question follow-through · 3828
Products: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he will provide guidance to businesses who sell to consumers in (a) the EU and (b) Northern Ireland prior to the EU Product Directive 2024/2853 coming into effect.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he will provide guidance to businesses who sell to consumers in (a) the EU and (b) Northern Ireland prior to the EU Product Directive 2024/2853 coming into effect.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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1 Jun 2026
Answer published
My Department is working with the Northern Ireland Government on the transposition of the new Product Liability Directive, which will include working with them to consider whether guidance may potentially be helpful to businesses in understanding the new ...
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