The same product can be lawful in one market and not in another. These are the differences that matter most.

Ireland and the European Union

CE marking and the EU product rules, with duties falling on the importer established in the Union as well as on the manufacturer. Customs entry into the Union is its own step, and Irish importers carry Irish as well as EU obligations.

Great Britain

UKCA marking and the United Kingdom’s own regimes since leaving the Union. Northern Ireland sits under different arrangements again. The two markets have drifted apart, and a document that satisfies one does not automatically satisfy the other.

The United States

A different structure entirely: federal agencies rather than a single marking scheme, more sector-specific rules, and a legal culture where liability does much of the work that regulation does elsewhere. The absence of a CE equivalent does not mean an absence of requirements.

Elsewhere

Most markets have their own equivalent of the same families of requirement, administered differently. Where we can advise we will; where we cannot, we say so and point you to someone who can.

How we help

We work to the market you are actually selling into, not to a general standard. If you sell into more than one, we map the differences, because that is usually where the cost and the delay sit.