CE Mark post Brexit

[Takemeaway]

What's the future of the CE mark for a British manufacturer post Brexit

Will everyone be moving over to the British standard on Jan 1st?

[StevieBee]

It will still apply as it does at the moment. It denotes that the product to which it is applied meets EU standards regardless of the country of manufacture. Certain goods have to have it if you want to sell it in the EU.

The only thing that will change from a UK perspective is that responsibility and administrative costs for certification and legislation will be transferred to a British government institution rather than shared with the EU.

[Drumroll]

Takemeaway said:

What's the future of the CE mark for a British manufacturer post Brexit

Will everyone be moving over to the British standard on Jan 1st?

Certainly for the short to medium term it will still apply. Maybe as British Standards are updated and IF they move away from the EN standards than maybe so.

But to be honest off hand I can't think of many things that are made that won't either have the potential to be sold in europe or be used with something made in europe.

[untakenname]

Judging from the mark being on cheap dubious quality electronics I get from China CE now stands for China Export so likely not much to worry about.

[55palfers]

untakenname said:

Judging from the mark being on cheap dubious quality electronics I get from China CE now stands for China Export so likely not much to worry about.

Very much nail on head.

I doubt it's ever policed.

[Ean218]

55palfers said:

Very much nail on head.

I doubt it's ever policed.

It is half heartedly. We were at a trade show once and a chap from Ofcom was going around the stands checking people had the correct CE test paperwork for radio gear.

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untakenname said:

Judging from the mark being on cheap dubious quality electronics I get from China CE now stands for China Export so likely not much to worry about.

Of coarse cheap chinese knock offs aren't worried by a CE mark. But that is not the same as a reputable business making and trying to sell a product in the UK or europe.

[b0rk]

Drumroll said:

Takemeaway said:

What's the future of the CE mark for a British manufacturer post Brexit

Will everyone be moving over to the British standard on Jan 1st?

Certainly for the short to medium term it will still apply. Maybe as British Standards are updated and IF they move away from the EN standards than maybe so.

But to be honest off hand I can't think of many things that are made that won't either have the potential to be sold in europe or be used with something made in europe.

BSI stated last year that they had no intention of developing competing or alternative BS standards where an EN exists and that they would be continuing to further the migration towards EN standards. The only exception being if HMG ask BSI to develop a new national standard in place of an EN.

In terms of CE marking UK government policy is to see UKCA come in on 1st Jan 2021 as a replacement to a CE mark, if you are a business that places a product, device, thing into the market then you need ensure your thing is marked from the 1st Jan 2022 and mark is permanent from the 1st Jan 2023, so no stickers!
However to sell the same thing into the EU still requires a CE mark. All in all a pointless exercise of saddling UK importers/manufacturers with more cost for no obvious benefit.

[StevieBee]

b0rk said:

All in all a pointless exercise of saddling UK importers/manufacturers with more cost for no obvious benefit.

Yes, but it's 'our' "cost" and 'our' no "obvious benefit"