We receive lots of requests for clarification on many points relating to the application of EC mark and from these often prevail the conviction that it is a burocratic act and the target of certain procedures are not clear.
We insist on the fundamental point from which depart all the directives and all the regulations related on the EC mark: this point is security.
When the legislator approves and publics directives and regulations, he has to ensure the security to the final user in connection to the technical progress and productive possibilities. This is why many rules and directives are continuously updated.
Therefore everyone is able to understand that are the requirements of security to determine the complexity of procedures to activate to apply the EC mark on the product, and not its commercial cost or its dissemination.
More a product may cause damage to the User, as in the case of machinery, more accurate must be the analysis of risk and much more complex the interventions to eliminate or reduce the dangers.
For these reasons and not for trade speculation, the internally assistance to apply the EC mark, may have extremely variable costs and move from a few hundred euro to a several thousand.
We said rhetorically that security has no price, but facts show that very often it does not have value and to ensure a minimum of security the CE mark can be given only after having followed a well defined path, which is not the burocratical compilation of modules, but the detailed assessment of characteristics and circumstances.
Therefore look at the EC mark with the aim of obtaining a safe products before that functional, because it is always better that a product stops working rather than those who use it.
A safe product is a guarantee not only for the users, but also for those who produce it and put it in trade, otherwise it becomes a time bomb, it is only a matter of time.
