KALİTEST has been designated as ‘Notified Body’ regarding 89/106/EEC Construction Products Direvtive KALİTEST succeeded the accreditation audits which has been performed by TURKAK (Turkish Accreditation Body) regarding 89/106/EEC Construction Products Directive, the below mentioned scope and has been appointed as ‘Notified Body’ with the number of ‘2179’.
Kalitest Certification Construction Products Directive Scope




Introduction
Compliance to the CPD, which is shown by a product carrying a CE mark, indicates compliance with EU legal requirements, and allows a manufacturer to place his product on the market in any EU Member State. It is basically a device to promote free trade throughout the EU. The products which are affected by the CPD are those products permanently incorporated into ‘the works’, whether building or civil engineering works, provided the works are subject to regulations At least one of the “essential requirements” below must apply to the product:

Essential requirements
- mechanical resistance and stability
- safety in case of fire
- hygiene, health and the environment
- safety in use
- protection against noise
- energy economy and heat retention

Exactly how the “essential requirement” will apply to the product will be defined in the “technical specification”, either a “harmonised” standard (hEN) (produced by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) or a European Technical Approval (ETA) produced by an ETA Approval
Body. The ETA can be issued with guidelines known as European Technical Approval Guidelines (ETAG’s) produced by the European Organisation for Technical Approvals (EOTA). The purpose of technical specifications is to cover all the performance characteristics required in any Member State.
Technical specifications are emerging and CE marking has arrived, but it will take several years for full coverage. CE marking will become the norm, whether the actual mark is mandatory or not and manufacturers will have to adopt it.

What does a manufacturer have to do?
Depending on the product, the technical specification will define what needs to be done in order for a product to carry the CE mark. It will also define who needs to do what, by specifying a level of “Attestation of Conformity”. Attestation of Conformity (AoC) is basically the “who does what” to allow CE marking. Some tasks will be done by the manufacturer and some will be done by a Notified Body, e.g. test laboratory or certification body. There are basically four levels of AoC, ranging from Level 1 (most onerous) to Level 4 (least onerous), though there is also a Level 1+ and a Level 2+. As a general rule, the more safety critical products will be allocated an onerous AoC (e.g. 1 or 1+), whereas non-critical products will have a less onerous AoC (e.g. 3 or 4).
The table below summarises the requirements under each AoC Level.



Route to CE Marking

Notified Bodies
KALİTEST is designated to provide Notified Body services for a very wide range of construction products as soon as the relevant technical specifications become available, and can offer its services to manufacturers both in the Turkey and elsewhere in the world.