Notification Detail

The proposal aims to rationalise and digitalise economic operators’ obligations for the concerned Directives and to align the existing fall-back option to harmonised standards uniformly.This proposal includes:- The specification that the EU declaration of conformity, or a similar document, must be drawn up in electronic form and made accessible through an internet address or machine-readable code when that declaration needs to accompany a product;– The addition of a ‘digital contact’ as information to be indicated by manufacturers on the products which are placed on the market in order to facilitate communication between economic operators and national authorities;– The specification that the instructions accompanying products may be provided in electronic form, with the exception of safety information which should be provided on paper or marked on the product for consumers;– The amendment of reporting obligations to national authorities that require a ‘paper or electronic format’ to ‘electronic form’ only;– The insertion of an obligation for exchanges by electronic means between the economic operators and the competent authorities;– The introduction of a provision on common specifications to benefit from the use of presumption of conformity with essential requirements in the absence of harmonised standards; – An obligation to provide the information contained in the EU declaration of conformity and instructions on the digital product passport, when the product is subject to other Union legislation that requires the use of such a digital product passport.