Different organisations, including Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs), are asking whether results from the UKCA Marking scheme can be used for issuing certificates (as a Notified Body (NB)) for the CE Marking system.
The EA working group on Accreditation for Notification (WG AfN) has discussed this matter and coordinated its position with the European Commission. The result can be summarized as follows:
- There is no equivalence between the UKCA Marking scheme and the CE Marking system. Thus CABs (NBs) cannot base their decisions and certifications in any way on the results and certificates originating from the UKCA Marking scheme.
- If single tests are carried out according to international (and harmonized) technical standards by accredited laboratories based in the UK, these can be used by CABs (NBs) only if they have the competence themselves and “endorse” these tests by assessing the results and validating the reports.
The full EA Communication on the ‘Acceptance of Conformity Assessment results – Relation between the CE Mark and UKCA Mark’ can be downloaded here.