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Draw up a declaration of performance |
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- Description:
- The manufacturer must draw up a declaration of performance when placing the product on the market and state the product’s performance in relation to its essential characteristics in accordance with the relevant harmonised technical specifications.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products covered by a harmonised standard or conforming to a European Technical Assessment issued for them
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Check of technical coverage and completeness of the declaration of performance
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 4 Absatz 1
- Source excerpt:
- When a construction product is covered by a harmonised standard or conforms to a European Technical Assessment which has been issued for it, the manufacturer shall draw up a declaration of performance when such a product is placed on the market.
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Affix the CE marking |
Other |
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- Description:
- The manufacturer must affix the CE marking visibly, legibly and indelibly before placing the product on the market, on the product or, where necessary, on the packaging or accompanying documents, together with the required information.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products for which a declaration of performance has been drawn up
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Visual inspection of the marking on the product, label, packaging or accompanying documents and comparison with the declaration of performance
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 9 Absatz 1
- Source excerpt:
- The CE marking shall be affixed visibly, legibly and indelibly to the construction product or to a label attached to it. Where this is not possible or not warranted on account of the nature of the product, it shall be affixed to the packaging or to the accompanying documents.
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Prepare technical documentation |
Record Keeping |
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- Description:
- The manufacturer must draw up, as the basis for the declaration of performance, technical documentation describing all relevant elements related to the required system for assessment and verification of constancy of performance.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products for which a declaration of performance and technical documentation are required
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Check that the technical documentation exists and is complete
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 11 Absatz 1
- Source excerpt:
- Manufacturers shall, as the basis for the declaration of performance, draw up technical documentation describing all the relevant elements related to the required system of assessment and verification of constancy of performance.
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Retain documents for ten years |
Record Keeping |
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- Description:
- The manufacturer must keep the technical documentation and declaration of performance for ten years after the construction product has been placed on the market.
- Frequency:
- Continuous
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Technical documentation and declarations of performance for construction products
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Request and review of the documents during the retention period
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 11 Absatz 2
- Source excerpt:
- Manufacturers shall keep the technical documentation and the declaration of performance for a period of 10 years after the construction product has been placed on the market.
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Identify products and provide manufacturer details |
Record Keeping |
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- Description:
- The manufacturer must make the product identifiable and indicate its name or trade mark and a contact address.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products and their packaging or accompanying documents
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Check of the product, batch or serial number and the manufacturer’s identity and contact address
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 11 Absatz 4
- Source excerpt:
- Manufacturers shall ensure that their construction products bear a type, batch or serial number or any other element allowing their identification, or, where the size or nature of the product does not allow it, that the required information is provided on the packaging or in a document accompanying the construction product.
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Provide instructions and safety information |
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- Description:
- Manufacturers and importers must ensure that the product is accompanied by instructions and safety information in a language determined by the Member State concerned that can be easily understood by users.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products made available on the market
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Check that accompanying instructions and safety information are in the required language and understandable
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 11 Absatz 6
- Source excerpt:
- When making a construction product available on the market, manufacturers shall ensure that the product is accompanied by instructions and safety information in a language determined by the Member State concerned which can be easily understood by users.
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Correct non-compliant or risky products |
Due Diligence |
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- Description:
- Manufacturers and importers must immediately take corrective measures or withdraw or recall the product and, where it presents a risk, inform the competent national authorities.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products that are non-compliant or present a risk
- Checking responsibility:
- Competent national authorities and market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Review of conformity information, corrective measures and, where applicable, notification to competent authorities
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 11 Absatz 7
- Source excerpt:
- Manufacturers who consider or have reason to believe that a construction product which they have placed on the market is not in conformity with the declaration of performance or not in compliance with other applicable requirements in this Regulation, shall immediately take the necessary corrective measures to bring that construction product into conformity, or, if appropriate, to withdraw or recall it.
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Verify conformity before placing on the market |
Due Diligence |
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- Description:
- Importers may place only compliant construction products on the Union market and must first verify the required assessments, documents, markings and manufacturer details.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products placed on the Union market by importers from third countries
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Pre-market check of the assessment, technical documentation, declaration of performance, CE marking and manufacturer details
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 13 Absatz 2
- Source excerpt:
- Before placing a construction product on the market, importers shall ensure that the assessment and the verification of constancy of performance has been carried out by the manufacturer.
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Ensure compliant storage and transport |
Due Diligence |
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- Description:
- Importers and distributors must ensure that storage and transport do not jeopardise the product’s conformity.
- Frequency:
- Continuous
- Check frequency:
- Continuous
- Products/Services:
- Construction products under the responsibility of importers or distributors
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Control of storage and transport conditions
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 13 Absatz 5
- Source excerpt:
- Importers shall ensure that, while a construction product is under their responsibility, storage or transport conditions do not jeopardise its conformity with the declaration of performance and compliance with other applicable requirements in this Regulation.
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Distributor checks before making available |
Due Diligence |
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- Description:
- Before making a product available on the market, distributors must exercise due care and verify that the required markings, documents, instructions and details are present.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products made available on the market by distributors
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Check of the CE marking, accompanying documents, instructions, safety information and manufacturer and importer details
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 14 Absatz 2
- Source excerpt:
- Before making a construction product available on the market distributors shall ensure that the product, where required, bears the CE marking and is accompanied by the documents required under this Regulation and by instructions and safety information in a language determined by the Member State concerned which can be easily understood by users.
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Ensure supply-chain traceability |
Record Keeping |
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- Description:
- Economic operators must, on request, identify the companies that supplied products to them and the companies to which they supplied products.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products and their supply chains
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Provision of information and documents to market surveillance authorities and tracing of immediate supply relationships
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 16
- Source excerpt:
- For the period referred to in Article 11(2), economic operators shall, on request, identify the following to market surveillance authorities: (a) any economic operator who has supplied them with a product; (b) any economic operator to whom they have supplied a product.
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Limit performance information to the declaration of performance |
Reporting |
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- Description:
- The manufacturer may provide information about performance only if it is included and specified in the declaration of performance, unless a legal exception applies.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Information about the performance of construction products covered by a harmonised standard or conforming to a European Technical Assessment
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Check whether performance information is included and specified in the declaration of performance
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 4 Absatz 2
- Source excerpt:
- When a construction product is covered by a harmonised standard or conforms to a European Technical Assessment which has been issued for it, information in any form about its performance in relation to the essential characteristics, as defined in the applicable harmonised technical specification, may be provided only if included and specified in the declaration of performance except where, in accordance with Article 5, no declaration of performance has been drawn up.
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Supply the declaration of performance |
Reporting |
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- Description:
- The manufacturer must supply a copy of the declaration of performance with each construction product made available on the market, in paper or electronic form, and provide a paper copy upon request.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Products/Services:
- Construction products made available on the market
- Checking responsibility:
- Market surveillance authorities
- Check method:
- Check whether each product is supplied with a paper or electronic copy of the declaration of performance, and in paper form upon request
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Artikel 7 Absatz 1
- Source excerpt:
- A copy of the declaration of performance of each product which is made available on the market shall be supplied either in paper form or by electronic means.
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