UK EPR – Groups and Subsidiaries Guidance

UK EPR – Groups and Subsidiaries Guidance

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published guidance and a template for parent companies to add multiple subsidiaries to their Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging account. The guidance and template are available on...
UK EPR – Groups and Subsidiaries Guidance

OPSS GPSR Guidance for Northern Ireland

From 13 December 2024, the EU Regulation 2023/988 on General Product Safety came into force and now applies in Northern Ireland (NI). Therefore, OPSS has published a fact sheet and detailed guidance document for businesses placing products on the market in NI. ...
UK EPR – Groups and Subsidiaries Guidance

HSE Guidance on Minimising Animal Testing under UK REACH

On 25 November 2025, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published guidance for registrants on meeting the toxicological and ecotoxicological information requirements laid out in Annexes VII-X of the UK Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH)...
UK EPR – Groups and Subsidiaries Guidance

UK/Vietnam – Certificates of Free Sale (CFS)

In September 2024, the UK embassy in Hanoi received verbal agreement from the Vietnamese Ministry of Healh (MoH) that they will accept the Certificate of Free Sales (CFS) from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) Import Licensing Branch (ILB).  This comes after...