Definition
from EC
DG Enterprise
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This package:
- introduces better rules on market surveillance
to protect both consumers and professionals from unsafe products, including imports from third countries. This particularly applies to procedures for products which can be a hazard for, health or the environment for instance, which in such a case will be withdrawn from the market;
- enhances the confidence in and quality of conformity assessments of products
through reinforced and clearer rules on the requirements for notification of conformity assessment bodies (testing, certification and inspection laboratories) including the increased use of accreditation; a reinforced system to ensure that these bodies provide the high quality services that manufacturers, consumers and public authorities need;
- enhances the credibility and clarifies the meaning of CE marking.
CE marking will be protected as a community collective trade mark, which will give authorities and competitors additional means to take legal action against manufacturers who abuse it;
- establishes a common legal framework for industrial products in the form of a toolbox of measures for use in future legislation.
This includes provisions to support market surveillance and application of CE marking, amongst other things and it sets out simple common definitions (of terms which are sometimes used differently) and procedures which will allow future sectoral legislation to become more consistent and easier to implement. The provisions are split for legal reasons, but must be considered in parallel, as they are fully complementary and together form the basis of consistent legal framework for the marketing of products. The provisions of the Decision will be fed into existing Directives as and when they are revised - in effect, it is a basis for future regulation.
- strengthens the internal market of a wide range of other products, which are not subject to EU harmonisation,
such as various types of foodstuffs (for example bread and pasta), furniture, bicycles, ladders and precious metals, etc. Together they represent more than 15% of intra EU trade in goods. The new mutual recognition Regulation covers such products.
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