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Britain Doesn't Think Your Coloured Contact Lenses Are a Medical Device. That's Why They're About to Land in a New Product Safety Regime.
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The UK is rebuilding its product safety law from scratch, and the draft framework carves out "medicines and medical devices" — exactly as the EU's GPSR does. The same carve-out...
Britain Is Making a UK Business Jointly Liable for Your Import Duty. The Date Everyone Is Quoting Isn't in the Bill.
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On 13 July 2026 the UK published draft Finance Bill 2026-27 clauses removing the £135 customs duty relief on low-value imports. Every summary gives the deadline as October 2028. That...
Europe Has Put a €2 Fee on Every Item You Ship In. The Regulation That Sets It Has a Blank Where the Start Date Goes.
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On 19 September 2026 the EU published a new Union Customs Code. On 21 September the Commission fixed the amount of its new Union handling fee at EUR 2 per...
Those Halloween Lenses Need a Prescription in America and a Notified Body in Europe. On 1 January, Europe's Grace Period Starts Closing.
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Non-corrective coloured contact lenses have no medical purpose, and both the United States and the European Union regulate them as medical devices anyway. America gates the sale: a prescription, verified...
California Just Regulated the AI Model in Your Video Ad. New York Regulated the Still. Neither One Covers the Other.
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California's SB 1050 was signed on 16 September 2026 and takes effect 1 January 2027. It reaches audio and video advertising — and not the still product photography New York...
Europe's Device Register Went Live in May. Whether You Had to Be On It Depends on Who You Bought the Frames From.
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EUDAMED's first four modules became mandatory on 28 May 2026. Whether an eyewear store had to be registered turns on one fact that has nothing to do with its products:...

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Britain Doesn't Think Your Coloured Contact Lenses Are a Medical Device. That's Why They're About to Land in a New Product Safety Regime.
Britain Is Making a UK Business Jointly Liable for Your Import Duty. The Date Everyone Is Quoting Isn't in the Bill.
Europe Has Put a €2 Fee on Every Item You Ship In. The Regulation That Sets It Has a Blank Where the Start Date Goes.

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