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UK PSTI Product Security Compliance

Build a UK PSTI compliance process covering product scope, supply-chain roles, the three security requirements, statements, records, and post-market failures.

Binding duties come from Part 1 of the 2022 Act and the current 2023 Regulations. OPSS guidance explains administration and enforcement; ETSI materials are standards evidence, not a substitute for applying the UK rules.

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Sorena AI
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May 9, 2026
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Jul 24, 2026
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Published May 9, 2026
Updated Jul 24, 2026
Overview

Compliance starts before release and continues after supply. For each model and UK route, classify the product, assign statutory roles, implement the Schedule 1 controls, complete the statement route, retain records, and maintain a process for vulnerability reports and each potential .

Section 1

Build the compliance file around the released product

The file should identify the exact hardware, firmware, associated software, intended purpose, UK sales route, consumer status, and legal entities. Record the section 4 connectivity conclusion, every Schedule 3 exception considered, the section 54 analysis, and the actor-specific trigger.

Use dated technical evidence from the released configuration. A corporate policy, supplier promise, or test from another model does not prove that the product supplied in the United Kingdom meets the requirement.

  • Keep product specifications, protocol maps, intended-purpose material, packaging, sales pages, and supply-chain agreements.
  • Record manufacturer, importer, distributor, and authorised-representative roles per legal entity.
  • Preserve password design and test results, published disclosure information, and support-period publication evidence.
  • Link every release approval to the product version and evidence location.
Sources for this answer
Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022, Part 1
Part 1 defines relevant connectable products, UK consumer connectable products, supply-chain roles, statements, records, compliance-failure duties, and enforcement.
The UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Product Security) regime
The government policy paper explains how the Act and Regulations work together across product scope, economic-operator duties, statements, and enforcement.
Section 2

Meet the three requirements and statement duties

The password rule, vulnerability-reporting information, and defined support-period publication are separate requirements with different technical and publication scopes. Apply the exact Schedule 1 text, including associated-software coverage for the publication requirements and the conditions for consumer-facing information.

The ordinary statement must contain Schedule 4 information and accompany the product. A digital method can work because the Act does not prescribe paper, but the business must decide and evidence how the document accompanies its product. The 2025 Schedule 2A route applies only when all specified conditions are satisfied.

  • Approve a requirement-by-requirement matrix for the current 2023 Regulations.
  • Verify public information without requiring a login, request, payment, or personal data where the rule prohibits those barriers.
  • Keep the support end date aligned across sales pages, packaging, support sites, and internal release plans.
  • Retain statement or alternative-route evidence for the period the Regulations require.
Sources for this answer
PSTI Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products Regulations 2023 (current text)
The current consolidated Regulations contain the three Schedule 1 security requirements, statement content and retention rules, deemed-compliance conditions, and Schedule 3 exceptions.
Regulations: consumer connectable product security
OPSS and DSIT guidance explains commencement, covered products and actors, the three security requirements, statement accompaniment, and the vehicle exceptions.
PSTI Security Requirements Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025
S.I. 2025/1267 added limited deemed-compliance conditions, including a statement-accompaniment route, with effect from 4 December 2025.
Section 3

Assign duties by economic operator

A manufacturer must comply when the Act's conditions apply and must investigate potential failures, remedy its failures, notify required persons, and keep investigation and compliance-failure records. Importers have their own statement, investigation, remediation, notification, and record duties. Distributors must perform statement checks and take action on known or suspected failures under their provisions.

An authorised representative does not replace the manufacturer. Section 13 gives it a specific duty to contact the manufacturer and notify the enforcement authority when the stated conditions are met.

  • Give engineering ownership of product controls and regulatory ownership of the legal conclusion and statement.
  • Require importers and distributors to keep evidence of their checks instead of relying on an undocumented assumption.
  • Define who can block release or supply when evidence is missing or a failure is known.
  • Keep OPSS and supply-chain contact details current.
Sources for this answer
Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022, Part 1
Part 1 defines relevant connectable products, UK consumer connectable products, supply-chain roles, statements, records, compliance-failure duties, and enforcement.
Regulations: consumer connectable product security
OPSS and DSIT guidance explains commencement, covered products and actors, the three security requirements, statement accompaniment, and the vehicle exceptions.
Section 4

Respond to potential compliance failures

Do not treat every security vulnerability as a proven statutory . Investigate whether the product or actor failed a relevant security requirement, record the outcome, and then apply the role-specific remedy, prevention, contact, and notification duties.

OPSS can use information, compliance, stop, and recall notices, monetary penalties, and other enforcement powers. The Act permits a maximum penalty of the greater of GBP 10 million or 4% of qualifying worldwide revenue, with possible daily penalties for continuing failures; the actual response depends on the statutory criteria and enforcement process.

  • Open an investigation with affected models, versions, dates, supply routes, and the information received.
  • Record known risks, root cause, containment, remedy, validation, customer impact, and whether further supply must stop.
  • Notify OPSS and other persons only as required by the applicable Act section, with accurate current facts.
  • Preserve the notice, representations, decision, appeal dates, and corrective-action evidence.
Sources for this answer
Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022, Part 1
Part 1 defines relevant connectable products, UK consumer connectable products, supply-chain roles, statements, records, compliance-failure duties, and enforcement.
Consumer connectable product security regulations: enforcement actions
OPSS guidance explains investigations, notifications, compliance, stop and recall notices, monetary penalties, forfeiture, representations, and appeals.
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