M/417 - Certification schemes
Standardisation mandate addessed to CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI for the use of Harmonised Standards in support of the new legal framework and sectoral certification schemes
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A European Standardization Mandate is a formal request from the European Commission to the European Standardization Organizations (CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI) to develop European standards (ENs) in support of EU legislation and policies. Mandates are issued under Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 and help ensure that products and services meet the essential requirements set out in EU directives and regulations.
M/417 is a European Standardization Mandate titled "Standardisation mandate addessed to CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI for the use of Harmonised Standards in support of the new legal framework and sectoral certification schemes". Standardisation mandate addessed to CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI for the use of Harmonised Standards in support of the new legal framework and sectoral certification schemes There are 2 standards developed under this mandate.
Standards developed in response to a mandate and cited in the Official Journal of the European Union become "harmonized standards". Products manufactured in compliance with harmonized standards benefit from a presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the corresponding EU directive or regulation, facilitating CE marking and market access across the European Economic Area.
ISO/IEC 17050-2:2004 specifies general requirements for supporting documentation to substantiate a supplier's declaration of conformity, as described in ISO/IEC 17050-1.
For the purposes of ISO/IEC 17050-2:2004, the object of a declaration of conformity can be a product, process, management system, person or body.
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This Guide specifies general criteria for a supplier's declaration of conformity in cases where it is desirable, or necessary, that conformity of a product, process or service to normative documents be indicated, irrespective of the sector involved. The supplier may then declare under his/her responsibility the conformity to normative documents.
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