# The Marking of Retail Goods Regulations 2025, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations require the Secretary of State to issue a marking notice requiring that the retail goods specified in that notice be individually marked with the words ‘not for EU’, where the supply of certain retail goods to Northern Ireland is, or is likely to be adversely affected.
The Regulations ensure that retail goods which need to be individually marked to move from Great Britain to Northern Ireland under Regulation (EU) 1231/2023 on specific rules relating to the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of certain consignments of retail goods, plants for planting, seed potatoes, machinery and certain vehicles operated for agricultural or forestry purposes, as well as non-commercial movements of certain pet animals into Northern Ireland must, where necessary to ensure the continued availability of retail goods in Northern Ireland, be required to be individually marked when first placed on the market for sale to final consumers in Great Britain.
Regulation 10 and the Schedule to these Regulations make provision for the enforcement of the obligation to apply or ensure that an individual marking is affixed to retail goods that have been specified in a marking notice.
A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2 Marsham Street. London SW1P 4DF.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348272536/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-marking-of-retail-goods-regulations-2025/note
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