About CE Marking Authority
Most manufacturers first come to us asking about CE marking or UKCA marking - the two marks that get a product legally onto EU and UK shelves. That's usually where the relationship starts, but rarely where it ends. A conversation that begins with "which mark do I actually need" tends to uncover two or three other questions the client hadn't thought to ask yet, and answering those properly is where the real value of working with us shows up.
CE Marking Authority is a UK-based team of CE marking consultants covering the full compliance journey: acting as your Authorised Representative where the law requires one, planning global market access beyond the EU and UK, training your in-house team, and handling directive-specific work across machinery, ATEX, pressure equipment, electronics and more. Whatever stage your product is at, chances are we've taken something similar through it before - from a first-time exporter unsure where to even start, to an established manufacturer trying to untangle a compliance gap a previous consultant left behind.
We've built our reputation on getting the detail right the first time. That means the correct directive identified from the outset, not guessed at; a risk assessment properly scoped to the product in front of us, not lifted from a similar-looking job; and paperwork built to survive genuine scrutiny rather than simply exist for its own sake. Regulators and market surveillance authorities read technical files closely, and a file that was rushed tends to show it.
None of this works as a one-off transaction, which is why we think of it as a partnership rather than a project. Products change. Standards get revised. Markets open and close. Our job doesn't end the day a certificate is issued - it continues for as long as your product is on the market, and that's a commitment most of our clients only fully appreciate a year or two in, when something changes and we're already halfway to sorting it before they've had to ask.
20+ Directives Covered
Dual-Framework Expertise
Full Documentation Support
Long-Term Partnership
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When Your Product Line Grows, Your Compliance Should Too
A product that passes CE marking on day one rarely stays static. Specifications change, components get swapped, new markets open up - and each shift can quietly invalidate a certificate nobody remembers to check. We've seen it happen with something as small as a switched connector supplier, which on paper looks like a minor procurement decision and in practice can shift a product's EMC performance enough to break the original conformity assessment.
CE Marking Authority builds compliance around your product's whole lifecycle, not a single certification moment. As your range expands, we track which existing approvals still hold and which need revisiting, so a supplier substitution three years from now doesn't become a recall six months after that. We also keep an eye on the surrounding detail most businesses overlook - packaging changes, labelling updates, and revised user instructions - because a certificate can be technically valid and still fall short if the paperwork around it hasn't kept pace.
This kind of ongoing oversight matters more the faster a business grows. A single-product manufacturer can usually keep track of their own compliance picture in their head. Once a range expands to a dozen SKUs across three markets, that stops being realistic, and the gap between "we think we're compliant" and "we can prove we're compliant" starts to widen without anyone noticing until an audit forces the question - exactly the sort of gap our CE marking consultants exist to catch early.
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The Machinery Regulation Is Coming - Is Your Documentation Ready?
From 20 January 2027, the new EU Machinery Regulation (2023/1230) replaces the long-standing Machinery Directive, introducing tighter rules on cybersecurity, AI-enabled equipment, and digital documentation. Manufacturers who leave this until the deadline typically run out of runway, particularly where existing technical files were never built with digital traceability in mind - retrofitting that structure onto years of legacy paperwork takes considerably longer than building it in from the start.
We're already helping clients map the gap between their current technical files and the new requirements, working through what transitional provisions actually cover and what they don't. Our CE marking services already factor these upcoming changes into every current assessment, so clients aren't left redoing work twice. The detail matters here: some existing certifications carry over with minimal changes, others need a substantially fresh conformity assessment, and knowing which category your product falls into early saves months of avoidable rework later.
If machinery is part of what you build, this is the moment to have that conversation - not the month before the regulation lands, when testing slots and consultant time both get harder to find. Manufacturers who start planning now tend to move through the transition calmly; those who wait tend to be making decisions under deadline pressure, which is rarely where the best compliance decisions get made.
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One Certificate, Every Directive It Touches
Most products don't sit under a single regulation. An electrical machine tool, for instance, can simultaneously trigger the Machinery Directive, the EMC Directive, the Low Voltage Directive and RoHS - four separate technical requirements feeding into one certificate of conformity. Pressure systems bring their own layer again: compliance under the PED Pressure Equipment Directive demands its own conformity assessment route, entirely separate from the machinery requirements sitting alongside it on the same product. A hydraulic press, for example, can find itself governed by machinery, pressure equipment, and electrical safety requirements simultaneously - three assessment routes, one product, and no room for treating any of them as an afterthought.
Our CE marking services map every directive that applies to your product before certification starts, so nothing gets missed halfway through - and nothing gets duplicated unnecessarily either. Overlapping requirements are common enough that testing done for one directive can sometimes satisfy part of another, provided the assessment is planned with that overlap in mind from day one rather than discovered by accident partway through.
Getting this mapping wrong at the outset is one of the most expensive mistakes a manufacturer can make, because it's rarely discovered until a product is already close to launch - at which point going back to add a missed directive means reopening testing, documentation, and timelines all at once.
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Your Legal Presence in the EU, Without the Overhead
Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 means non-EU manufacturers can no longer place products on the EU market without a locally based representative - full stop, no exceptions. As your EU authorized representative, we take on that legal role: fielding regulator enquiries, holding your documentation, and standing as your point of contact, so you never need to lease an office you'll rarely use.
The role isn't a formality on paper. When a market surveillance authority requests your technical file, or a customs check flags a query, we're the ones who respond - quickly, and with your documentation already organised, rather than scrambling to locate it from overseas at short notice. That responsiveness matters more than most manufacturers realise until the day they actually need it; a slow or disorganised response to a regulator's query can trigger far more scrutiny than the original query ever warranted.
We take on this responsibility for manufacturers across a wide range of sectors, and the arrangement scales with you. A single product line today doesn't mean a single product line in three years, and our role as your representative grows alongside your range without you needing to renegotiate the relationship each time something new comes to market.
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PUWER Doesn't End When CE Marking Does
CE marking covers a product before it's sold. What happens after it's installed and in daily use is a separate legal question - governed in the UK by PUWER regulations. We run PUWER assessments and training for equipment already on the factory floor, closing the gap between "certified" and "actually safe to operate."
This distinction catches out more businesses than you'd expect: a machine can carry a perfectly valid CE mark and still fail a PUWER regulations inspection years later, simply because maintenance, modification, or changing use on-site was never reassessed against the original risk profile. A guard removed for a repair and never properly reinstated, or a machine repurposed for a task it wasn't originally assessed for, are both common enough that we see them regularly - and both are entirely preventable with the right ongoing checks.
Where CE marking is largely the manufacturer's responsibility, PUWER compliance sits with whoever owns and operates the equipment day to day - which means the responsibility often shifts hands without anyone formally handing over the compliance picture that goes with it. We help close that gap, whichever side of the transaction you're on.
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Training Packages
Compliance knowledge that lives in one consultant's head disappears the day that consultant moves on. Ours is built to stay with your team instead.
We run practical training on CE marking fundamentals, UKCA marking requirements, and directive-specific workshops tailored to what you actually manufacture - not generic slideshows borrowed from another industry. Sessions run from introductory courses for new starters to advanced briefings for engineers who'll be signing off technical files themselves, and we deliver them either on-site or remotely depending on what suits your team's schedule.
The goal isn't just passing an audit; it's your business knowing, in-house, what "compliant" actually requires - so the next product launch, the next factory audit, or the next regulatory change doesn't send you straight back to square one. Teams who've been through our training tend to catch small compliance issues themselves, long before they'd otherwise surface in a formal review, simply because they now know what to look for.
PRODUCT COMPLIANCE REPORT
Every certification we issue is backed by a Product Compliance Report your business can hand to any auditor, retailer, or regulator without hesitation. It's built to answer the questions a market surveillance authority will actually ask, not just to look thorough on a shelf.
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Applicable regulations identified and documented against your specific product, not a generic checklist.
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Risk assessments carried out to the relevant harmonised standards.
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Declaration of Conformity and technical file checked for completeness and correct version control.
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Documentation retained securely for a minimum of ten years, exactly as UK and EU law require.
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Ongoing review built in, so your certificate of conformity stays valid as your product, your market, or the underlying regulation changes.
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A single point of contact for any follow-up questions, rather than a file handed over and forgotten.
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Directive-specific detail checked in full, whether that's RoHS, ATEX, or PED Pressure Equipment Directive obligations sitting alongside your core certification.
CUSTOMERS
A few of the manufacturers who've trusted us
