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• Software workshop in Berlin

  19^th Sep 2017

  Software workshop in Berlin
  The presentation outlining the future challenges that may be faced by European manufacturers given at the European software workshop on behalf of CECIP is given in the full article. Click here to open.

• Government position papers on the Brexit negotiations

  19^th Sep 2017

  Government position papers on the Brexit negotiations
  The Government has issued a number of position papers which represent its negotiating position for the Brexit negotiations. There are a number of these papers but the one that relates to the continued availability of goods in the EU and the UK is given in the full article. Click here to open.

• Guide to Application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

  10^th Aug 2017

  Edition 2.1 (update of the 2nd edition) of the Guide to application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC is publically availible. Click for more details.
   

• PTB Article on software risk management

  22^nd Feb 2017

  Please see the article on software risk assessment that the UKWF have recently had published in the PTB magazine.

• Weighing in the news

  22^nd Feb 2017

  There have been a number of magazine, newspaper and television articles recently connected with the issue of a possible return to imperial measurement. They make interesting reading and listening. Click for links.

• Obituary Alan Birch of AB & Sons

  9^th Jan 2017

  With great sadness we would like to inform you that Alan Birch the founder of AB&Sons (Retired) passed away on Monday 2^nd January 2017 after a five year long battle with lung cancer aged 72, he died peacefully surrounded by his family and close friends.

• EN45501 - Comparisons

  26^th Oct 2016

  A cross reference chart has been produced of the potential changes to the EN45501.

• The Blue Guide 2016

  11^th Apr 2016

  There has been a new Blue Guide issued to bring it into line with the changes bought by the NLF.

• The end of the NMRO

  11^th Apr 2016

  The proposed amalgamation of the NMRO and the BRDO has now taken place and they are now one department to be known as the Regulatory Delivery.

• The implementing regulations for the Directive 2014/31 and 2014/32

  11^th Apr 2016

  Regulations which will bring the above requirements into force will not now be done until after the EU Referendum.