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A new Regulatory Delivery directorate has been established in BIS focused on regulation and enforcement.

From 1 April, the Better Regulatory Delivery Office and the National Measurements and Regulation Office were combined to form the new BIS directorate for Regulatory Delivery.

The Better Regulatoy Delivery Office had a focus on improving the way in which local and national regulators enforce regulations, whilst the National Measurements and Regulation Office operated as an Executive Agency within BIS, aiming to simplify technical regulation and conduct market surveillience activities.

The new Regulatory Delivery directorate will be led by the existing BRDO Director, Graham Russell and will report to Small Business, Industry and Enterprise Minister, Anna Soubry.

BIS has confirmed that the directorate will work to ensure that the way regulation is enforced is proportionate and risk based. It will deliver existing functions such as Primary Authority, legal metrology and hallmarking policy, technical regulation and enforcement work.

Although a large chunk of BIS's environmental product policy work was moved to Defra on 1 April, enforcement and market surveillience remain with BIS, with responsibilities spanning the eco-design Directive, energy labelling, chemical restrictions under the RoHS Directive and the WEEE Directives and batteries.