All metal flying and sliding gates, excluding those of minimum size not carrabili and including all those track, must have the CE mark.
The obligation arises from two conditions: to be construction product permanently incorporated in buildings, and that to be the subject of a specific European directive.
What many, even among the directors, do not know is that the CE marking in the case of the gates is not a simple self-certification, because the manufacturers can not independently apply the EC mark on their products.
In this case, as for the machines in Annex IV or for boilers, it is always necessary that the manufacturer has a” type” certification that can be issued only by a notified body.
The type certification is formal attestation that an external body has taken vision of a “type” product. It has done the tests provided by European directive and in case of conformity it has issued a written statement, which is sent also to the relevant ministry.
The manufacturer may avail itself of such documentation in all its successive products, if he can prove that the various products fall for security within the limits defined by the products “type”, of which it owns the compliance document.
Certainly these obligations will create some difficulties to manufacturers which are obliged to introduce new procedures than the merely construction of the products. But remember that everything is done to promote the safety, so the customers and the professionals who are charged with the task of directions work must demand the EC mark.
We remember to the builders that adopting CE methods which respect only apparently the rule, but are in fact reduced to a series of modules compiled without any real respect for the legislation, is, in addition to a crime also a serious risk for users and for them.
