CE Marking for Steel Products

CE Marking的意思是“符合Européenne”，并由两个字母“ C”和“ E”组成。制造商在其产品上标记了CE徽标，以确认其遵守适用的欧盟安全法规（保护人类生命和环境）。CE标记可以由第三方仔细检查或由制造商自称。

WHAT IS CE MARKING?

最初使用的术语是“ EC标记”，但从“ CE Marking”一词正式取代。Directive 93/68/EEC1993年。

几种消费者和工业产品（包括steel pipes）应在欧盟合法出售CE标记。

制造商必须遵循一个高级的数量trative steps to obtain a CE mark for its products. Depending on the product and the nature of the risks it involves, the manufacturer shall:

• Determine if any directives apply to the product. If more than one applies, the manufacturer will have to comply with any of them.
• 确定产品符合适用指令中设计和制造的基本要求的程度。
• Choose the conformity assessment procedure from the options called out by the directive for the product. There are several modules available for theConformity Assessment Proceduresas listed below:

Module A: internal production control
Module Aa: the intervention of a Notified Body
模块B：EC类型检查
Module C: conformity to type
Module D: production quality assurance
Module E: product quality assurance
Module F: product verification
Module G: unit verification
Module H: full quality assurance

The directives often use a series of questions about the nature of your product to classify the level of risk and refer to a chart called “Conformity Assessment Procedures”.

The chart includes all of the acceptable options available to a manufacturer to certify their product and affix the CE Marking.

低风险产品

Options for products with minimal risk include self-certification where the manufacturer prepares a Declaration of Conformity and affixes the CE Marking to their own product.

HIGH-RISK PRODUCTS

Many directives require products/systems with greater risks to be independently certified; this must be done by a“Notified Body”。

This is an organization that has been nominated by a Member Government and has been notified by the European Commission.

通知机构充当独立的测试实验室，并执行指令所要求的步骤。

他们必须具有必要的资格来满足指令中规定的测试要求。

Notified bodies may be a private sector organization or a government agency. Manufacturers may choose a notified body in any member state of the European Union. Lists of notified bodies are published by the European Commission in the欧洲社区官方杂志。

A Notified Body is usually able to offer some of the services required:

• product testing
• type-examination certificate issue
• Technical File and design dossier evaluation
• surveillance of product and quality system
• identification of standards

如果产品需要由通知机构认证，则必须遵循以下步骤：

1. 为您的产品选择适用的产品标准和测试方法，然后选择一个通知的主体。
2. Establish an授权代表in the European Union for your product: Some directives require that a manufacturer designates in the European Union an authorized representative to produce Technical Documentation (or sometimes called Technical File) in a timely fashion when called upon to do so. The CE Marking itself is not meant to provide details about the product to Surveillance Authorities.
3. 技术文档（技术文件）：指令要求制造商准备许多产品（技术文件）的许多产品。技术文档（技术文件）拥有的信息可以验证测试是否正确进行，并且产品符合适用的标准。
4. Prepare a Declaration of Conformity.
   一致性声明必须包含足以将产品追溯到制造商或欧盟授权代表的信息。它可能包括您的产品符合产品标识，制造商的姓名，地址和签名的指令和标准列表。
5. Register your product in EU
   例如，许多产品（例如，I类医疗设备）必须在欧盟注册，如果证明，请获得注册证书。如果没有此注册证书，则不允许将产品贴上CE标记并将其放置在市场上。
6. Affix the CE Marking to your product.
   有specific rulesto adhere to for the CE Marking. These rules address the size and location of the Marking; affixing the CE Marking to products, packaging and material or documents shipped with the product; and specific limitations on when and who is permitted to affix the CE Marking.

“CE” VS. “CHINA EXPORT” MARKS

Since a few years, Chinese manufacturers have started to stamp a “CE” acronym on their products to mislead Western consumers about the compliance of their goods to the European compliance and marking regulations: although the marks look similar at first sight, an expert eye would recognize the difference between the two (the C and the E of the “China Export” mark are actually closer than the same two letters of the real “CE” mark).