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European Product Safety and Environmental Directives:

The CE marking Directives are documents published by the European Commission that lay out the protection requirements (design safety) and the administrative requirements for products intended to be manufactured or imported into the EU.

There are many Directives, covering a large range of products, but they all essentially contain these two distinct sets of requirements. However, the directives do not state how the requirements are to be specifically and quantifiably achieved. This task is left to each individual EU member state to implement into their own national laws. This, in turn, is the role of the standards. Various multinational committees meet to produce and update standards relating the safety, marking, design etc of products within their fields. These standards are implemented at national, European or international level and some are ultimately adopted by the member state governments to specify the requirements of the Directives. When a standard has been referenced by the European Commission (by publication in the Official Journal of the EU), it can be adopted by a member state as a yardstick to use for product compliance. In this situation a product which complies with the approved standards for a given Directive can be presumed to comply with the essential requirements of the Directive. The list of the directives is as given: -->
Directive No. Directive Title
2006/95/EC
Low voltage equipment
90/396/EEC
Appliances burning gaseous fuels
2000/9/EC
Cableway installations designed to carry persons
89/106/EEC C
Construction products
2004/108/EC
Electromagnetic compatibility
94/9/EC
Equipment and protective systems in potentially explosive atmospheres
93/15/EEC
Explosives for civil uses
95/16/EC
Lifts
98/37/EC
Machinery safety
2004/22/EEC
Measuring instruments
90/385/EEC
Medical devices: Active implantable
93/42/EEC
Medical devices: General
98/79/EC
Medical devices: In vitro diagnostic
92/42/EEC
New hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fluids (efficiency requirements)
90/384/EEC
Non-automatic weighing instruments
94/62/EC
Packaging and packaging waste
89/686/EEC
Personal protective equipment
97/23/EC
Pressure equipment
1999/5/EC
Radio and telecommunications terminal equipment
94/25/EC
Recreational craft
87/404/EEC
Simple pressure vessels
88/378/EEC
Toys safety

Essential health and safety requirements:

The New Approach directives contain mandatory “essential health and safety requirements” for product design and usage. Essential requirements are binding. Manufacturers must choose a technical solution that will meet the essential requirements.