Other Product Safety Directives
Active Implantable Medical Devices - contact Department of Health, Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), 10-2 Market Towers,1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NQ, Tel 020 7084 2000, e-mail devices@mhra.gsi.gov.uk
Construction Products - For information on Construction Products or Building Regulations visit The Department for Communities and Local Government at http://www.communities.gov.uk.
Efficiency Requirements for Hot Water Boilers: A "Product standards" guide is available from the link on the right, and you can order a hard copy online via BERR Publications. Contact Alan Christie, Sustainable Energy Policy Division, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) 3, Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HD. Further useful information, including a Boiler Efficiency Database, can be found at http://www.sedbuk.com. General information on energy efficiency can be found at Action Energy - a UK Government programme designed to provide free information to organisations to help them cut their energy bills.
Non-automatic Weighing Instruments , defined as measuring instruments which determine the mass of a body or other mass related magnitudes, quantities, parameters or characteristics by using the action of gravity, and which require the intervention of an operator, and the Measuring Instruments Directive which covers a number of measuring instrument types, including gas and electricity meters, petrol pumps and automatic weighing instruments - Further information is available from the National Measurement Office, Stanton Avenue, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0JZ, telephone +44 (0) 20 8943 7272 or info@nmo.gov.uk
NMO publish documents on The Non-Automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations, including Notes for Guidance.
Our earlier guidance note (August 1996), kept available for reference, is "Product standards - Non-automatic Weighing Instruments - UK Regulations" - hard copy no longer available.
Medical Devices - contact Department of Health, Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency(MHRA), 10-2 Market Towers,1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NQ, Tel 020 7084 2000, e-mail devices@mhra.gsi.gov.uk
Toy Safety - A "Product standards" guide is available. Contact Tony Eden-Brown, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate, Bay 572, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET. Tel 020 7215 0360, fax 020 7215 0357, email tony.edenbrown@bis.gsi.gov.uk
