Schedule 11: Construction products regulations Paragraph 16 – Costs Background
The Independent Review recommended that Government should ensure that there is a more effective enforcement, complaint investigation and market surveillance regime with national oversight to cover construction product safety. These powers enable the relevant authority (as defined), to recover some of the costs attributable to this new regime.
Example
This charging authority could be used, for example, to charge for attendance at conferences, for publications or providing advice and support. It could also be used, for example, if local Trading Standards discovers through the exercise of its market surveillance and enforcement functions that a construction product was found to be non-compliant with these regulations. It could seek to recover the costs of the relevant regulatory functions exercised in establishing and dealing with this non-compliance.