Notified bodies

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Notified bodies under the Construction Products
Directive
Eric Winnepenninckx Belgian Building Research
Institute (BBRI-CSTC-WTCB) Chairman of the
Advisory Group of the Group of Notified Bodies
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Notified Bodies
NB-CPD

• Notified bodies take responsibilities in areas of
  public interest
• Legal entities established on the territory of an
  EEA Member State
• Accreditation to the EN 45000 or EN ISO/IEC 17000
  series of standards is a support to the technical
  part of notification, but it is not a requirement

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Responsibilities for Member States
NB-CPD

• MSs should add to their Notification criteria
• Participation in the GNB
• GNB document knowledge and their use
• MSs should periodically subject their NBs to
  surveillance
• To instil confidence in the system and therefore
  in CE Marking, MSs should coordinate notification
  criteria

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NB-CPD
444 Notified Bodies from 26 countries (2006-03-01)
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NB-CPD
444 Notified Bodies from 26 countries
(2006-03-01)(Germany not shown)
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Role of Notified Bodies
NB-CPD

• Producer is fully responsible for the attestation
  that products are in conformity
• For ALL attestation of conformity systems, the
  manufacturer establishes and signs a declaration
  of conformity (before CE Marking)
• Depending on the AoC system, the manufacturer
  requires a NB attestation
• Systems 1 and 1 Certificate of product
  conformity
• System 2 Certificate of FPC conformity
• System 2 Initial FPC inspection report
• System 3 Evaluation report(s) (test and/or
  calculation)
• The involvement of a third party does not relieve
  the producer from any of his/her obligations

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NB-CPD

• In the framework of the CPD, NBs are notified
  for
• Harmonised standards or ETA-Guidelines (and
  CUAPs) and specific test (or calculation) methods
  (for testing laboratories only)
• Specific tasks certification, inspection,
  testing (or calculation)
• Manufacturers can use NBs from any EEA country.

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AoC systems
NB-CPD
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The Group of Notified BodiesStructure Sector
Groups
NB-CPD
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NB involvement in GNB Sector GroupsGNB Structure
Advisory Group
NB-CPD

• Full members representatives of the national
  mirror-groups of NB-CPD
• Associate members
• ECC EFTA
• CEN EOTA
• observers
• candidate countries
• producers (CEPMC)
• users (FIEC - UEPC)

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NB involvement in GNB Sector Groups GNB
Structure Sector Groups
NB-CPD

• Full members All the Notified Bodies in charge
  of AoC in the frame of the scope of the Sector
  Group
• Associate members
• CEN/TC(s) EOTA/WG(s)
• observers
• candidate countries
• producers (Eurofederations)
• users (Eurofederations)

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Organizing towards Europe
NB-CPD
CTPC
Advisory Group
Evaluation commission
Romanian
representative
feedback
designation
Organisation of Romanian NBs
22 Notified bodies
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Organising towards Europe
NB-CPD

• Romanian Notified bodies should organize
• Distribution of information
• National discussion forum
• Present feedback to evaluation committee
• Nominate 1 representative
• Example www.bucp.be
• The Romanian representative is invited to the GNB
  Advisory Group
• All NBs are automatically member of Sector
  Group(s) and should cooperate through CIRCA and
  meetings.

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Group of Notified BodiesThe tasks of the GNB are

NB-CPD

• to promote mutual confidence and transparency
  between all NBs and the enforcement authorities
  within the EEA
• to achieve a consistent application of the
  conformity requirements by all NBs
• to ensure that all information is available to
  all interested parties, on the scope and
  competence of NBs and the services provided
• to contribute to the development of standards and
  ETAGs within the scope of the SGs, as far as
  evaluation of conformity is concerned

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NB-CPD
http//europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/construction/
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NB-CPD
http//europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/construction/
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NB-CPD
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NB-CPD
http//europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/nando-is/cpd
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NB-CPD
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Goal of GNB documents
NB-CPD

• GNB documents are developed in a democratic
  forum, based on consensus between all involved
  NBs
• NBs should behave accordingly
• MSs have been requested (EC GP A SCC meetings)
  to add their use as a notification requirement
• Sometimes contain information that is also
  relevant to manufacturers
• (relevant clauses) Should be withdrawn when
  documents with a higher status (e.g. EN / ETAG /
  CUAP) incorporate their content

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Status and goal of GNB documents
NB-CPD

• GNB Position Papers
• Are not legal interpretations of the Directive.
• They are not judicially binding
• They do not modify or amend the Directive, EC
  Decisions and harmonised specifications in any
  way.
• Goals
• Ensure equivalent NB behaviour when performing
  attestation activities under the CPD
• Add detail where this is missing in EN / ETAG /
  CUAP