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I think OP may be quoting from here:
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/government-in-humiliating-climbdown-over-ukca-marking/
Thanks.
Typical nonsense from them. Taking an edge case of a tiny minority of a subset of products that require certification i.e. medical devices sold worldwide that already conform to ISO standards that are way higher than the EU regs, and then saying that UK business are all affected.
I notice they don't actually say how many of the fewer than 10% of UK firms that export are affected.
But there's literally no benefit to anyone to inventing a whole new UK set of standards to replace the CE mark. It's just so a bunch of rabid Brexiteers can claim some benefit. The only "benefit" is that we might lose safety standards. There's nothing in Brexit for actual people.
Agreed, CE isn't about standards though. It's just a mark to say it complies with EU regulations. An item can still be of poor quality yet be compliant with all EU regs.
The UKCA nonsense to replicate this is just more proof of how inept the Tories are.
We already have actual standards like the BSI kitemark, it's a quality mark.
As is the ISO. https://www.iso.org/home.html