Regulation/Non-Tariff Barriers

To what extent Brexit will affect current regulation will vary from sector to sector, but the impact is potentially enormous. In many areas, the UK largely works to European-wide standards and it is likely that UK regulation will continue to comply with those standards (but with no ability to shape the policy behind them). However, there will be difficult transitional adjustment issues where the UK opts to diverge. In this briefing, we consider the potential scenarios, what barriers these might create to trade and how to prepare for possible changes.

Regulation covers many different things, including everything from labelling, product standards and safety, up to the way in which group companies are structured in view of any preclusion on the same company controlling different parts of a supply chain.