19 Jan 2026

Industry Working Group on White/Private Labelling

In October 2025, the CPA published guidance for manufacturers and others on 'Understanding your Declaration of Performance Obligations for the GB Market', with strong support from The Office for Product Safety and Standards, the national regulator for construction products.

The Declaration of Performance (DoP) is a central requirement under the Construction Products Regulation 2011 (GB) and provides a standardised way for manufacturers and other economic operators to communicate how a construction product performs against its essential characteristics. By doing so, the DoP supports transparency, comparability, and compliance, helping architects, builders, designers, and regulators make informed decisions about which products are suitable for use. The guide explains the obligations that apply to manufacturers, importers, distributors, and authorised representatives when drawing up and providing a DoP. It sets out when a DoP must be created, what information it must contain, and how it should be supplied. While it does not replace the legislation itself, the guide is intended to make the requirements of the CPR 2011 (GB) clearer and more accessible, enabling businesses to meet their legal duties with confidence and consistency.

DBT/OPSS want to develop clear consistent guidance accessible to everybody and support businesses that wish to be compliant when white labelling products. OPSS has received complaints and evidence of frustration from compliant businesses that practices costly to themselves (supporting documentation) are being illegitimately used in some instances to cut corners, in addition to other incorrect practice.

The aim of the guidance is to support compliant organisations and remove the ambiguity to businesses wanting to follow the correct steps and process, but to also ensure that organisations that do not want to be compliant have no hiding place.

The aim of the DBT/OPSS working group is to have the guidance completed by July 2026. National guidance from government takes time to complete and will mean a delay in any guidance being out in a timely manner. This will therefore be industry guidance to ensure timely completion and implementation accessible to all and will be fully supported and backed by DBT/OPSS.

Following extensive discussion, the chair of the group will be producing a first high-level draft for circulation mid-January, with the next meeting taking place 28 January 2026 following comments from the working group.

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