CE directives, also known as CE marking directives, are a set of regulations and requirements established by the European Union (EU) that govern the use of the CE marking on products sold within the European Economic Area (EEA). The CE marking indicates that a product complies with all relevant EU directives and regulations related to health, safety, and environmental protection.
Some of the key directives that may require CE marking include:
Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC): Applies to machinery and safety components, specifying requirements for safety and health.
Low Voltage Directive (2014/35/EU): Applies to electrical equipment with a voltage between 50 and 1000 V for alternating current and between 75 and 1500 V for direct current, ensuring safety for users.
EMC Directive (2014/30/EU): Applies to electromagnetic compatibility, ensuring that electrical and electronic equipment does not generate electromagnetic disturbance that may interfere with other products.
Medical Devices Directive (93/42/EEC): Applies to medical devices, ensuring their safety and performance.
Personal Protective Equipment Directive (89/686/EEC): Applies to personal protective equipment (PPE), ensuring its safety and performance.
Toy Safety Directive (2009/48/EC): Applies to toys, ensuring their safety and compliance with specific requirements.
Pressure Equipment Directive (2014/68/EU): Applies to pressure equipment, ensuring its safety.
Construction Products Regulation (EU) 305/2011: Applies to construction products, ensuring their performance and safety.
Radio Equipment Directive (2014/53/EU): Applies to radio equipment, ensuring its safety and electromagnetic compatibility.
ATEX Directive (2014/34/EU): Applies to equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres, ensuring their safety.
Recreational Craft Directive (2013/53/EU): Applies to recreational craft, ensuring their safety and environmental performance.
Energy-related Products Directive (2009/125/EC): Applies to energy-related products, ensuring their environmental performance.
Lifts Directive (2014/33/EU): Applies to lifts and safety components for lifts, ensuring their safety and performance.
Gas Appliances Directive (2009/142/EC): Applies to gas appliances, ensuring their safety.
Simple Pressure Vessels Directive (2014/29/EU): Applies to simple pressure vessels, ensuring their safety.
Measuring Instruments Directive (2014/32/EU): Applies to measuring instruments, ensuring their accuracy and reliability.
Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Directive (2014/31/EU): Applies to non-automatic weighing instruments, ensuring their accuracy.
Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Directive (2000/14/EC): Applies to noise emission from outdoor equipment, ensuring environmental protection.
Marine Equipment Directive (2014/90/EU): Applies to marine equipment, ensuring its safety and performance.
In vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Directive (98/79/EC): Applies to in vitro diagnostic medical devices, ensuring their safety and performance.
Active Implantable Medical Devices Directive (90/385/EEC): Applies to active implantable medical devices, ensuring their safety and performance.
Radioactive Sources Directive (2013/59/EU): Applies to the safety of radioactive sources, ensuring their safe use and management.
Pyrotechnic Articles Directive (2013/29/EU): Applies to pyrotechnic articles, ensuring their safety and performance.
Explosives for Civil Uses Directive (2014/28/EU): Applies to explosives for civil uses, ensuring their safe manufacture, storage, and use.
Aerosol Dispensers Directive (75/324/EEC): Applies to aerosol dispensers, ensuring their safety.
RoHS Directive - (2011/65/EU): Restricts the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment to reduce their environmental impact.
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive (2012/19/EU): Aims to reduce the environmental impact of electrical and electronic equipment waste by promoting its reuse, recycling, and recovery.
Batteries and Accumulators and Waste Batteries and Accumulators Directive (2006/66/EC): Aims to minimize the impact of batteries and accumulators on the environment and promote the development of battery recycling.
End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV Directive - 2000/53/EC): Aims to reduce the environmental impact of end-of-life vehicles by promoting their reuse, recycling, and recovery.
Non-Automatic Weighing Instruments (NAWI Directive - 2014/31/EU): Ensures the accuracy of non-automatic weighing instruments, such as scales and balances.
The General Product Safety Directive (2001/95/EC) GPSD is a key piece of legislation in the European Union (EU) that aims to ensure that only safe consumer products are placed on the market. Unlike the CE marking directives we've discussed, the GPSD is not specific to any particular category of products but applies to all consumer products.
These directives set out the essential requirements that products must meet to be placed on the market within the EEA. Manufacturers must ensure that their products comply with these requirements and undergo the necessary conformity assessment procedures before affixing the CE marking.