In our latest Trade Note, we look at the latest developments regarding CE and UKCA marking ahead of the 2025 deadline, and consider what we should be asking our potential MPs ahead of next month’s General Election.

TDUK is calling for the next Government to remove the uncertainty for UK business and announce that CE marking on construction products will be recognised indefinitely in the UK in line with the recent announcement on all other CE marked products. 

This simple route recognises that CE marking is fundamentally about market access and will support the existing UK/EU trade agreement. It will also free the resources of Government and industry to concentrate on the development of a UK construction product safety system that supports UK construction, rather than simply overseeing products being placed on the market. 

At the point of exit from the EU back in January 2020, the UK Government was very firmly of the intent that recognition of CE marking on construction products would cease in the shortest time possible and that the UK would develop its own world-leading marking system called UK Conformity Assured UKCA. 

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