# Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices, Article 18: Wrongly affixed CE marking

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Without prejudice to Article 8:
(a) where a Member State establishes that the CE marking has been affixed unduly or is missing in violation of the Directive, the manufacturer or his authorised representative shall be obliged to end the infringement under conditions imposed by the Member State;
(b) where non-compliance continues, the Member State must take all appropriate measures to restrict or prohibit the placing on the market of the product in question or to ensure that it is withdrawn from the market, in accordance with the procedure in Article 8.
Those provisions shall also apply where the CE marking has been affixed in accordance with the procedures in this Directive, but inappropriately, on products that are not covered by this Directive.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1993/42/article/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1993-42/article-18
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