Ryan,

Are you employed or a seflf-employed consultant?

If you are employed, then you have no requirement for any standards whatsoever.

The requirement falls on your employer

As others have said, if your are employed, then it is for your employer to provided copies of EN standards if you need them.

It isn't usually necessary to obtain full copies of standards, if you refer to relevant HSE guidance, they usually highlight/draw on the key points of the relevant standards, no doubt you are aware that HSE guidance publications are free to download.

Just remember CE marking is to EN standards NOT BS EN standards...

Seem to have lost my line breaks in the last post (again)

When you search the internet to find for example a renewal for your Driving Licence, passport or European Health Insurance Card unfortunately the first results are likely sponsored sites making money charging for what can often be free (or at much lower cost) from the official source. Problem is domain names can be registered by anyone so .EU is not necessarily an official web site of the European Union.

CE marking is an enactment of the european unions drive for free trade amongst all member states - affixing the CE mark declares product compliance with directive/regulation and harmonised standard and overcomes the previous barriers to trade where individual countries had their own unique and specific standards e.g. BS, DIN, NF, UNE, TS (although local publication of these harmonised standards is often preceeded by the national standards designation e.g. BS EN ISO 9001:2008)

The only example I have personally experienced contrary to this was way back at the introduction of the moving machinery directive where the customer insisted that state law took precedence to German federal law which itself was given precedence to the incoming EU directive. But at that time there weren't that many harmonsied standards for machinery.

The main country specific requirement from all such regulation and directive is that documentation SDS, instructions for use, declaration of performance or conformity must be issued in the language of the market country so that it is readily understood by those using the product.

Originally Posted by: paul.skyrme

Just remember CE marking is to EN standards NOT BS EN standards...

Lets take Industrial Safety Helmets which are CE marked as meeting the requirements of - EN 397:2012+A1:2012

Published in the UK as BS EN 397:2012+A1:2012 or Germany as DIN EN 397 or France as NF EN 397+A1

The difference is that the BS EN front pages carry BSI Logo and information - after that it is the same CEN standard only in English language.

Well, the difference between the BS EN & the EN is irrelevant really.

Remember there is no requirement to do anything to standards, as long as you can prove that what you are doing is just as safe.

To have a presumption of conformity, then one requires compliance with the harmonised standards as published in the official journal of the EU.

You won’t find any BS standards listed there.

As per the construction products directive harmonised standards as published in the official journal here:

Nothing else counts.

https://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/construction-products_en

If you scroll down the list you will see that the BS standard is NOT listed only the EN standard.

It is the EN standard that you must quote on your DoC to comply with the CE marking directive.

The BS, DIN, etc. standards are not recognised.

Whether they are different or not makes no difference.

I would actually say that BSI page is not 100% correct, as it contradicts itself, because the standard that they quote at one point, is not listed in the official journal of the EU, the standard they state is based on the EN standard, but is not the EN standard.

They do also however, state the correct standard also.

So, the requirement under the Construction Products Directive is to CE mark to EN 1090 as amended.

NOT to BS EN 1090 as amended.

Subtle difference, but, it is a specific difference, that could result in illegal CE marking and an invalid DoC.

EU 305/2011 the Construction Products Regulation replaced 89/106/EEC the Construction Products Directive

UK S.I. 2013 No. 1387

Construction Products being placed upon the market where a harmonised european standard exist are required to have a Declaration of Performance before applying CE marking.

Testing to the essential requirements listed within the standard can be in-house, by external provider or a mixture - a list of NANDO (not the piri-piri kind) is maintained at

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/nando/index.cfm?fuseaction=directive.notifiedbody&dir_id=33

Declaration of Conformity applies under other directives and regulations e.g. Low Voltage, PPE, Simple Pressure Vessels, Machinery