{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecodesign-for-energy-related-products-regulations-2010/schedule-1B/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecodesign-for-energy-related-products-regulations-2010/schedule-1B/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2617",
  "legislation_title": "The Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecodesign-for-energy-related-products-regulations-2010",
  "path": "schedule/1B/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Approved bodies",
  "text": "(1) An approved body is a conformity assessment body which—\n(a) has been approved by the Secretary of State pursuant to the procedure set out in paragraph 2; or\n(b) immediately before IP completion day was a notified body in respect of which no action has been taken by the Secretary of State to suspend or withdraw the body's status as a notified body.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) has effect subject to paragraph 5.\n(3) In this Schedule—\n“accreditation certificate” means a certificate, issued by the UK national accreditation body, attesting that a conformity assessment body meets the approved body requirements;\n“approved body requirements” means the requirements set out in Part 2;\n“notified body” means a body—\n(a)which the Secretary of State had before IP completion day notified to the European Commission and member States in accordance with Article 8(1) of Council Directive 92/42/EEC of 21 May 1992 on efficiency requirements for new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels; and\n(b)in respect of which no action has been taken to suspend or withdraw the body's status as a notified body; and\n“UK national accreditation body” means the body appointed by the Secretary of State in accordance with Article 4 of RAMS.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1B inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/539), reg. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 15 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1528, regs. 1(2), 4, 6(3)(4)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2617/schedule/1B/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:49.425874+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}