Balancing privacy and innovation with regulatory enforcement to ensure a competitive market for consumers.
Finding an appropriate regulatory balance between privacy and innovation, private and public enforcement of consumer and other policies is important for a competitive market for consumers.
Through our Legal Community, BRC Retail and Associate Members engage with officials and agencies such as Competition and Markets Authority and Information Commissioner’s Office responsible for legislative/policy proposals on data protection, consumer protection, enforcement, competition, ecommerce, internet of things and more.
Objectives
Influencing implementation of changes to consumer enforcement landscape, with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Trading Standards.
Shaping and building industry awareness of law changes and proposals impacting consumer protection and data protection.
Ensuring members stay abreast of CMA and Advertising Standards Authority developments on green claims and other areas.
Promoting smarter regulation with government.
WORKING GROUPS
There are no formal working groups but we do have dedicated meetings on data protection; consumer protection; competition; enforcement; and regulatory approaches.
Members
The following key roles and the teams that report into them:
Legal Directors
Senior Executives/Managers covering Data Protection, Consumer Affairs, Trading Standards, Compliance, Risk and Safety, Regulatory Affairs, Policy & Public Affairs
E-Commerce Directors
Associate Members
Latest Content
- Member AccessArticle
Product Safety Community | GB MCL Reference Page
18 Sep 2025 - Associate Insight
Taking Stock Report 2025
16 Sep 2025 - Member AccessArticle
ICO slides and information on facial recognition
11 Sep 2025 - Member AccessConsultation
Pricing Transparency: BRC calls for a more proportionate approach to displays of delivery charges
09 Sep 2025 - Member AccessMeeting Note
Member Meeting with DBT on Late Payments Consultation
05 Sep 2025 - Member AccessNews
Retailers meet with Chancellor ahead of the Budget
04 Sep 2025 - Member AccessArticle
Product Safety Community | BRC Letter to Minister Madders on Fireworks
01 Sep 2025 - Article
BRC Guide on Unit Price Legibility
29 Aug 2025 - Associate Insight
Trade Policy in Flux: What Tariffs Mean for Supply Chain Strategy
22 Aug 2025 - Associate Insight
What does the motor finance ruling mean for the retail sector?
20 Aug 2025
Upcoming Events
- Event
Late Payments Consultation - Member meeting
Thu 18 September10:30 - 12:00Teams - EventMasterclassLearning Programme
How to Integrate Nature into your Sustainability Strategy
Tue 23 September09:00 - 17:00The Form Rooms - Event
Operations Community - Martyn's Law
Mon 29 September12:00 - EventMasterclassLearning ProgrammeIn PersonEvent
Sustainability Reporting Masterclass
Tue 7 October09:00 - 17:30The Form Rooms - EventExternal Event
UK competition law enforcement: a multi-regulator perspective
Thu 9 October09:00 - 13:00Cannon Place, 78 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6AF - EventExternal EventConference
Retailers: Building a resilient future
Tue 21 October12:30 - 17:154 More London Riverside London, UK
What our members say
Spotting emerging risks and opportunities that arise from legal and regulatory reform is critical to our business. The BRC legal community brings together a collection of leading industry experts to share best practice in addition to influencing key policy makers. The proactive insight the BRC legal community secretariat provides is immeasurable, helping us to meet our strategic goals in a compliant manner.
Especially being a sole in-house lawyer I find the support of the BRC Legal Community very helpful. It is led by Graham Wynn who provides not just knowledge and patience but also a much needed sense of humour in the meetings that he chairs. In particular, I am grateful to the access it provides to bodies such as the CMA and the Home Office that ordinarily I would not get the opportunity to interact with.
Community Manager
Graham Wynn
Assistant Director for Consumer, E-Commerce and Regulatory Affairs | BRC
Graham joined the BRC in 2001 and has built up an extensive network in departments and agencies which he can call on for information, advice and to make submissions on policy proposals. He was Chairman of the EuroCommerce Internal Market and Consumer Affairs Committee for 10 years, having first lobbied in the EU in 1979. Prior to the BRC he worked on BBC local radio; was Secretary General of an international political organisation; and Head of Policy and the Shadow Cabinet Secretariat of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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