CE marking now (phasing out ?) to become Radio Equipment Directive (RE-D) what happens in UK ?

Not quite, generally CE directives are replaced by equivalent UKCA regulations. For EMC and LVD there's no change to start with (although of course if the UK government wanted they could now change the specific requirements for these to make the regulations tighter or looser).


So to sell in the UK you need a UKCA mark (underpinned by appropriate assessment / testing), to sell in the EU you need a CE mark (again underpinned by appropriate assessment / testing), but for now the actual technical standards are the same. And my guess is that these are unlikely to change much.


I'm no expert on RE-D, except to say this is an EU directive, I assume this is also now covered by UKCA?


There has always been a bit of a misunderstanding about certification bodies for CE marking, and no doubt this misunderstanding will carry on. Any manufacturer / supplier / importer can certify their own products (I've written and signed a fair few of them when I worked for a manufacturer), they don't even have to have been tested at a UKAS (or whichever national body applies) test house. Of course if that certification is found to be invalid there's a range of penalties that can be applied to the person / organisation that certified it. But it's always been a complaints led process - a manufacturer or importer has never had to prove anything to anybody before placing anything on the market (although customs will check for CE mark / paperwork on imported goods).

 

Basically, no change! Except that those of us who work for accredited bodies will now have to have two sets of accreditations (one for UK and one for EU), and where clients want to supply to UK and EU we'll need to supply two assessment certificates.


Q2 - no idea, but I wish these would become standardised so I didn't have to have so many of the blessed things!


Hope that helps,


Andy

Not quite, generally CE directives are replaced by equivalent UKCA regulations. For EMC and LVD there's no change to start with (although of course if the UK government wanted they could now change the specific requirements for these to make the regulations tighter or looser).


So to sell in the UK you need a UKCA mark (underpinned by appropriate assessment / testing), to sell in the EU you need a CE mark (again underpinned by appropriate assessment / testing), but for now the actual technical standards are the same. And my guess is that these are unlikely to change much.


I'm no expert on RE-D, except to say this is an EU directive, I assume this is also now covered by UKCA?


There has always been a bit of a misunderstanding about certification bodies for CE marking, and no doubt this misunderstanding will carry on. Any manufacturer / supplier / importer can certify their own products (I've written and signed a fair few of them when I worked for a manufacturer), they don't even have to have been tested at a UKAS (or whichever national body applies) test house. Of course if that certification is found to be invalid there's a range of penalties that can be applied to the person / organisation that certified it. But it's always been a complaints led process - a manufacturer or importer has never had to prove anything to anybody before placing anything on the market (although customs will check for CE mark / paperwork on imported goods).

 

Basically, no change! Except that those of us who work for accredited bodies will now have to have two sets of accreditations (one for UK and one for EU), and where clients want to supply to UK and EU we'll need to supply two assessment certificates.


Q2 - no idea, but I wish these would become standardised so I didn't have to have so many of the blessed things!


Hope that helps,


Andy