Brexit raises regulatory worries
Risk of doubling legal burden for industry undermines referendum’s ‘red-tape cutting’ claims
The UK’s cross-party parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has pressed the government to ‘urgently provide certainty to the UK chemicals industry over the future of chemicals regulation’. The committee’s report highlights threats to the £15 billion in chemical products the UK exports to Europe each year following the country’s EU referendum. New pharmaceuticals could also face increased regulation if the new UK approval system diverges significantly from the EU system