Big costs, no benefits to UK’s replacement for EU chemical regulation

The government has told all UK businesses that use or manufacture chemicals, to take action to register them in the UK to minimise disruption in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit – a scenario where the country leaves the EU without any trade agreement in place. But with just two months to go until the UK’s departure date, the chemical industry says the government has done nothing to allay its fears over continuing access to chemicals, given the tight timescales and costs of registering in the UK.