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UK authorizes funding for post-Brexit product-safety database

( March 20, 2018, 17:48 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The UK will spend 2.4 million pounds ($3.3 million) in 2018-19 on a new product safety market surveillance database for alerting local enforcement teams to the sale of dangerous or forged products. It now relies on EU databases and will need to create its own, even if it can negotiate a data-sharing agreement, says a memo by Business Department official Alex Chisholm requesting the "urgent" spending. The money was authorized under a so-called ministerial direction as the underpinning legislation has not yet been passed by Parliament.The statements are attached. ...

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