# The Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for use Outdoors Regulations 2001, Regulation 11: CE marking and indication of the guaranteed sound power level

Extent: E+W+S

(1) The UK marking shall be accompanied by the indication of the guaranteed sound power level.
(2) The UK marking and the indication of the guaranteed sound power level shall be affixed in a visible, legible and indelible form to each item of equipment or, where regulation 7(2B) applies, to a label affixed to the equipment or to a document accompanying the equipment.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where the equipment is subject to other enactments covering other aspects which provide for the affixing of the UK marking, the latter shall indicate that the equipment in question is also presumed to conform to the provisions of those other enactments.
(4) Where one or more of the other enactments referred to in paragraph (3) allow the manufacturer, during a transitional period, to choose which arrangements to apply, the UK marking shall indicate conformity only with the enactments applied by the manufacturer, and in this case, particulars of the enactments applied ... must be given in the documents, notices or instructions required by the enactments and accompanying the equipment.
(5) The affixing of markings or inscriptions on equipment which are likely to be misleading as to the meaning or form of the UK marking or to the indication of the guaranteed sound power level is prohibited.
(6) Any other marking may be affixed to equipment provided that the visibility and legibility of the UK marking and the indication of the guaranteed sound power level is not thereby reduced.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1701/regulation/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/noise-emission-in-the-environment-by-equipment-for-use-outdoors-regulations-2001/regulation-11
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