WHAT IS CE MARKING?
CE Marking is a product passport to freely place your product in European market. The CE marking indicates a product’s compliance with EU legislation and so enables the free movement of products within the European market. By affixing the CE marking to a product, a manufacturer declares on his sole responsibility that the product meets all the legal requirements for the CE marking, which means that the product can be sold throughout the European Economic Area (EEA, the 28 Member States of the EU and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein). This also applies to products made in other countries which are sold in EEA.
CE is an abbreviation of European Community (EC) but due to the official language of the member states
- French for COMMUNATE EUROPEIA
- Italy for COMUNITA EUROPEA
- Portuguese for COMUNIDADE EUROPEIA
- Spanish for COMUNIDADE EUROPE
And so it has been changed from EC to CE. Besides that, we could understand CE as an abbreviation of Conformité Européenne, meaning 'European Conformity'.