Under EU law, manufacturers and importers are responsible for verifying that their products comply with the requirements of the relevant EU directives. This means that the manufacturer (or importer) must go through various tests to ensure that the product meets the relevant requirements. The manufacturer or importer must keep a file of technical documents, including detailed descriptions of the equipment, drawings, test reports, etc. When producers or their authorized representatives think that their products have already met the relevant requirements, they need to sign a Declaration of Conformity and then put CE mark on the products.

CE process:

Application form

Payment settle

Consign samples for testing

CCS will provide re-construction check and trouble shooting suggestion (if need)

CCS will contact supplier collect and complete the key components certification (CDF)

Test finish and draft prepare

Draft report release and confirm

Official report and certification release.

CE DOC issue

Why choose CCS for CE application?

l  We will specify a certification program based on your target markets, provide the best solution for most cost and time saving. To minimum the testing cost and cover as much as the whole family models.

l  Provide key information to CCS: Applicant company name, address, product name, rating label and user manual, trade mark ect

l  Application form CCS will fill in then provide you review and sign back

l  CCS will provide Pre-construction check, guideline for test failure improve and trouble shooting suggestion (if need)

l  CCS will contact supplier collect and complete the key components certification (CDF)

l  CCS familiar with the process and close relationship with certification bodies, we also provide different brands of NCB, such as TUV,SGS, CQC or small labs with qualification ect, suitable for different certification budget.

l  CCS can control process lead time and aim to the schedule.

l  CCS can avoid you for any extra cost :retest, components no certification need test with appliance , ect)

When will CE certification expired? (What is CE certification lead time?)

If below outstanding points no change, CCS recommend that no need to renew for EU market:

1. directive no change

2. standard and standard version no change

3. Product construction , components no change or expired

4. Test method no change or add

5. Original certification body /lab still have the qualification

6. Original report quality if it is good enough , no defect. (Any defect, or annex missing, or any qualification miss, we also need check)

7. OJ if any Harmonized standard release (RF test part)

8. Some dangerous products, such as medical equipment, boilers, pressure vessels, elevators, etc., require annual audit to maintain the validity of the certificate.

9. If you refuse the annual audit or fail to pass the annual audit, the certificate will expire naturally.

5 years are a rough time line for most of the EU standards, most directive, standards, version change, so people will treat it as simple to say 5 years will expired. But not true:

Example: RED (EU radio frequency ) directive, each year update the standard version , and when new version pulish, old version directly expired.

Another example: fix light, the last safety standard version is published in 1990s, I remember over 10 years no change until the latest 2021 version.

In a short word, need case by case review. Further more consult, contact CCS!