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Article 1 Subject matter and scope

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

1.

This Regulation lays down rules on the organisation and operation of accreditation of conformity assessment bodies performing conformity assessment activities.

2.

This Regulation provides a framework for the market surveillance of products to ensure that those products fulfil requirements providing a high level of protection of public interests, such as health and safety in general, health and safety at the workplace, the protection of consumers, protection of the environment and security.

3.

This Regulation provides a framework for controls on products F1entering the market of Great Britain.

F24.

This Regulation provides the requirements as to the form of the UK marking.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 1(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 2(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 22(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Art. 1(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 2(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)