There’s no doubt that there is a lot of upheaval to come across industries in the UK, with legislation and how things are going to be regulated once the UK leaves the EU one of the key concerns for many businesses at present.
For sectors like the chemicals industry, it’s particularly important to know what, if any, new legislation will be introduced given the sensitive nature of the substances used for the likes of toll processing.
According to Chemical Watch, a UK government review of the laws relating to chemicals and the sector is likely to recommend areas where things can be improved, but with businesses here working so closely with their European counterparts, there needs to be some common legislation across the continent.
The publication cited the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, which suggested that there are certain areas of law where the UK cannot differ from the rest of Europe. According to the committee, as an absolute minimum the UK government should “seek to remain involved in the registration process for chemicals”.
The reason being that setting up our own standalone system of chemicals regulation “is likely to be expensive for both the taxpayer and for industry”.
In addition, there are also discussions in the wake of the latest terror attack on a train in London of whether more needs to be done in terms of regulating the availability of a number of substances to prevent people from being able to manufacture their own explosives to use in these kinds of attacks.