One of the Brexit consequences: From January 1st, 2023, the “UKCA Mark” will be necessary for all products which so far required a CE certificate for being sold in England, Scotland and Wales.
Only institutes that are UK-based can issue this “UK Conformity Assessed” mark. VdS also offers this service in cooperation with its partners BRE and UL.
simple and fast
“We coordinate the entire process for manufacturers on a one-stop basis. Effort and costs as well as time-to-market are significantly minimized if we already carried out VdS and CE tests on the products. Then the assessment is easily done based on our existing test reports,” emphasizes Gunnar Bellingen, head of the VdS laboratories for fire protection technology.
“Our key objective is providing VdS partners with all relevant services and making all required certification processes as simple and fast as possible.” UKCA Marking is highly similar to the CE process in terms of requirements and procedure. For most fire protection products, confirmation of conformity by a notified institute is required.
