Product certification where the product requirements are defined in a technical specification developed by the CB
Consider a situation where a Product CB has developed a normative document (technical specification) where product requirements are established. For some product characteristics, the technical specification states that the product requirements shall be defined in a specification from the producer.
Question 1: Is this possible, considering that the CB can have two (or more) certifications granted against the same technical specification, but the products will not meet the same requirements?
Question 2: In this situation, the certification documentation, when describing the scope of certification (§7.1.1 & 3.10), shall make reference both to the CB’s technical specification and the producer specification or just the CB’s technical specification?
March 2019
Question 1
Yes, but the scheme shall be clear if there are optional requirements or variants within. In this case, there is only 1 scheme and so any variants should not significantly change the nature of the item being certified. For example, options to the length of an electrical cable, dimensional options, layout of controls, etc.
Question 2
Yes, this should be clear on the certification documents.