CE marking

You are distributors of machinery and equipment, you are redesigning your own production facilities combining machines to use them as complete systems in the production process?

Then you are required to comply with the stipulations of the European Machinery Directive:

1. Applicable stipulations of the European Machinery Directive
2. Basic requirements on  safety and health
3. Identification of applicable industrial standards
4. Risk assessment
5. Compilation of operating instructions
6. Analysis and declaration of conformity
7. Compilation of required technical documentation

We help you deal with a wide range of issues which often puzzle manufacturers and plant operators alike.

• We analyse your production equipment as to what extent it is subject to the Machinery Directive  in terms of combined machinery and determine the regulatory scope.
• We assist you in compiling the necessary documents for technical documentations, operating instructions and the EC Declaration of Conformity.
• Together with you we review whether a modification of machinery is classified as significant  and thus requires a new assessment of conformity or if an inspection according to the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health suffices.
• We train your purchase staff as to which contractual arrangements are appropriate.
• We advise you on the applicable stipulations when  buying or selling used machinery.

We also inform you about required CE marking of pressure vessels and of equipment and protective systems in explosion-risk areas.

Please feel free to contact us.

By the way:

The new Equipment and Product Safety Act "Produktsicherheitsgesetz - ProdSG " was published on November 11th, 2011. The ProdSG supersedes the former GPSG.

The new ProdSG contains significant changes as compared to the old GPSG, eg:

• Central concept is the provision of products to the market, their exhibition or initial use. The term ‘provision’ replaces the formerly used term ‘distribution’ without significant changes.
• The product concept has been revised. Products under the  ProdSG are "goods, substances or preparations which have been produced through a manufacturing process."
• Consumer products make up a "special group" with additional special requirements.
• The term "technical equipment" is omitted in ProdSG. ProdSG covers now products not yet ready for use and  used products in its B-to-B part.
• Used B-to-B products are now required to comply with the safety regulations of the ProdSG  as of today and not as of the day of  their first use.
• The term "significant change" is omitted in the ProdSG; however  legislation has pointed out that "substantially modified products" are to be considered as new products. Thus, the guidelines on “Substantial Modifications of Machinery” are still applicable, however, are expected to be revised and adjusted.
• Provisions of "GS sign" were extended and made ​​more restrictive.
• Market monitoring instructions have been extended.
• The ProdSG is thus understood as a genuine "safety law" for all products, which are not regulated by special laws.