CE marking guides and technical file help
Work out which directives apply to your product, what the technical file has to contain, and what CE marking costs before you commit to testing.
CE marking at a glance
CE marking is the manufacturer's own declaration that a product meets every EU directive and regulation that applies to it, and most products are covered by several at once. For electronics that usually means the EMC Directive 2014/30/EU, the Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU, RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU and, for anything with a radio, the Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU. No authority issues the mark for you: you assemble the technical documentation, draw up the EU Declaration of Conformity, and affix the mark yourself. A notified body is involved only where the applicable directive requires one.
Read the Commission's CE marking guidance
Start with your next task
Establish what applies, build the file, draw up the declaration, then budget the work.
Which rules apply to your product?
Identify every directive and harmonised standard in scope before you spend on testing.
Build the technical file
What the file must contain, and the gaps that most often delay sign-off.
Draw up the Declaration of Conformity
The nine mandatory items, and a free fill-in-the-blanks template.
What does CE marking cost?
Where the money goes, and what third-party testing adds on top.
All CE marking guides
Scope, testing, technical documentation and the declaration. EMC testing and RoHS each have their own service pages and are only summarised here.
Need help getting to CE marking?
EcoComply builds the technical file, coordinates testing and issues your Declaration of Conformity at a fixed €3,800 per product, testing excluded. We then keep watching the standards behind it, because harmonised standards are superseded and declarations quietly go out of date.
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