CE marking for Manufacturers (general overview)

Manufacturers play a crucial role in ensuring that products placed on the extended single market of the European Economic Area (EEA) are safe. They are responsible for checking that their products meet EU safety, health, and environmental protection requirements. It is the manufacturer’s responsibility to carry out the conformity assessment, set up the technical file, issue the EU declaration of conformity, and affix the CE marking to a product. Only then can this product be traded on the EEA market.

If you are a manufacturer, you have to follow these 6 steps to affix a CE marking to your product:

1. Identify the applicable directive(s) and harmonised standards

2. Search for available translations of the preceding link

3. EN•••

4. Verify product specific requirements

5. Identify whether an independent conformity assessment

6. Search for available translations of the preceding link

7. EN••• (by a notified body) is necessary

8. Test the product and check its conformity

9. Draw up and keep available the required technical documentation

10. Affix the CE marking

11. Search for available translations of the preceding link

12. EN••• and draw up the EU Declaration of Conformity (27 KB).

These 6 steps may differ by product as the conformity assessment procedure varies. Manufacturers must not affix CE marking to products that don’t fall under the scope of one of the directives providing for its affixing.

For products that present higher safety risks such as gas boilers, safety cannot be checked by the manufacturer alone. In these cases, an independent organisation, specifically a notified body appointed by national authorities, has to perform the safety check. The manufacturer may affix the CE marking to the product only once this has been done.

Electromagnetic compatability

Low voltage

Machinery

Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment