CE Marking and EU Directives

Many industrial and medical equipment sold in the European Economic Area (EEA) must bear the CE marking or the European Conformity Mark.

A CE mark confirms that a product complies with European health, safety, and environmental regulations and can therefore be sold in any EEA country. The European Commission issues Directives for these products and industrial areas, after which individual countries must decide how to implement these Directives in their respective national legislation.

In many cases, manufacturers need an independent body to provide third-party testing, inspection and certification throughout the manufacturing process. These bodies, who are approved by a government and notified to the European Commission, are called Notified Bodies, or NoBos. 

We've been a Notified Body for as long as there have been Notified Bodies. LRQA is a NoBo for several EU Directives, and can provide independent certification for your products. 

Independence and Impartiality

We maintain our independence and impartiality by proactively managing conflicts of interest across all LRQA businesses including those which may exist between consultancy and third-party certification services.  We will not offer consultancy services for any customer product that is in the process of or has completed accredited third-party certification with LR. Furthermore, if we are already providing consultancy services to a customer product, we will not offer any accredited third-party inspection/assessment services for that same product.