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CE marking, standards and safety related web sites

Keeping anything close to a comprehensive list of safety and standards related web links up to date is a mammoth task. If you want to find the address for any international safety or standards body, we suggest you use Art Michael's Safety-Link site which is "the web's most comprehensive collection of electrical product safety and standards resources". It contains lots of useful links for non-electrical products too, so there is no point in us trying to duplicate his efforts!

For CE marking, the most useful site is that provided by Directorate General III of the European Commission. Their section of the EUROPA server includes lots of CE-mark related information, including lists of standards harmonised under each Directive and guidance documents for some directives. The EUROPA server is HUGE, so the following are some shortcuts to CE-mark related parts. Other useful links can also be found throughout our pages and on our Notified Bodies page.

The full list of EU legislation in force can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/index.html

Be warned - this is everything the EU currently has in force, including agricultural, social and other matters. CE marking and product safety in general only forms a (very) small part of this. For easy access to the text of the CE mark directives, you may find it easier to follow the links from our list of the directives at

http://www.conformance.co.uk/celist.html

The lists of harmonised standards can be found at

http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapproach/standardization/harmstds/reflist.html

where you will also find links to the full text of the CE mark directives.

Lists of standards in preparation can be found at:

http://www.newapproach.org/ProductFamilies/Keywords.asp

If you want copies of the Official Journal, the last two months issues can be found for free at:

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/

Extracts from older issues, containing the full text of Directives and associated papers can be found via the Legislation in Force search engine at:

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/search/search_lif.html

You will need to know the OJ number, date or directive reference to use this search engine efficiently.