Manufacturing
This theme is now closed for comment, and an announcement has been made on Red Tape Challenge plans.
Visit our news page here to find out more on proposals for the Manufacturing theme.
You can read comments made during the theme spotlight (21 July – 1 Sept 2011), in the sub-category pages below.
Over 120 regulations were included in the manufacturing Red Tape Challenge theme. These regulations largely relate to light and heavy manufacturing companies. Click on the sub-categories below to find out more.
Products and equipment
These regulations result from the implementation of European directives on the free movement of goods. It also includes regulations relating to the previously nationalised industries.
Weights and measures
These regulations include technical requirements for certain classes of measuring equipment and quantity labelling of certain drugs, foods and cosmetics.
Intellectual property
These regulations cover copyright and trade marks.
Export control
These regulations include control orders to implement trade sanctions and arms embargoes.
This site is designed to promote open discussion of ways in which the aims of existing regulation can be fulfilled in the least burdensome way possible. The presence of a particular regulation or law on this website should not be read as implying any intention on the part of the Government to remove that regulation or law from the statute book. The purpose of this exercise is to open government up to the public.
