Start with the law that applies today
Regulation (EU) No 305/2011, the Construction Products Regulation, continues to apply in Great Britain as assimilated law. Chapter II covers the declaration of performance and marking; Chapter III sets out what manufacturers, importers and distributors must do. The domestic offences, enforcement powers and market surveillance regime sit in the Construction Products Regulations 2013. All of that has the status LAW.
It has been amended repeatedly since EU exit, most recently by the Construction Products (Amendment) Regulations 2025, made on 6 November 2025 and in force from 8 January 2026. Those Regulations matter more than their title suggests: they allow compliance with the corresponding provisions of the new EU Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 to be relied on in Great Britain, so a manufacturer following the new EU route is not stranded here.
What the Building Safety Act 2022 added
The Act did not rewrite the construction-product rules. It created the power to. Part 5 contains section 146 and Schedule 11, the power under which construction products regulations are made — including the 2025 amendments above — plus sections 147 to 149 on liability relating to construction products and cladding products.
The national regulator for construction products sits within the Office for Product Safety and Standards, which took the role on in April 2021 and is accountable to MHCLG ministers. It leads market surveillance, coordinates local authority enforcement, and carries out product testing, site inspections and reviews of technical documentation.
Where the reform programme has got to
The Construction Products Reform Green Paper consulted on system-wide reform from 26 February to 21 May 2025 and drew 195 responses. The government responded to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry phase 2 report on 26 February 2025, accepting 49 of the 58 recommendations in full and the remainder in principle. A single construction regulator was accepted in principle, though the government said it would not be appropriate for that regulator to carry out testing and certification itself.
On 25 February 2026 the government published the Construction Products Reform White Paper (CP 1515) alongside the summary of green paper responses, and a separate consultation on a General Safety Requirement for construction products (CP 1516). Both consultations close on 20 May 2026. They are proposals: their status is CONSULTATION.
What the White Paper says about product information
The White Paper says construction product information must be made available digitally, that the government will work with industry to develop digital standards to promote consistency across product information, and that it supports digital product records, digital identifiers and associated requirements.
That is a direction, not a duty. There is no published schema, no register, no format and no date. We record the identifier-and-data-carrier direction as EXPECTED, because the White Paper and the general safety requirement consultation point the same way, and we say plainly that nothing about it is law yet.
What this means for a fire-door manufacturer
None of it changes what a fire doorset has to do. It changes how quickly and how confidently you will be expected to show why it does it. Every strand of the reform programme — testing, certification, enforcement, product information — converges on the same demand: produce the evidence behind a specific claim about a specific configuration on a specific date.
That is an information-management problem before it is a legal one, and it is worth solving before the rules firm up rather than after.