4. CE marking and EU declaration of conformity

The person who is placing the product on the market or putting it into service shall affix the CE marking and, under the responsibility of the notified body referred to in Section 3, the latter’s identification number to the product for which the notified body has assessed and certified its equivalent conformity with the relevant requirements of this Directive. The person who is placing the product on the market or putting it into service shall draw up an EU declaration of conformity and keep it at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the date the post-construction assessment certificate has been issued. The declaration of conformity shall identify the product for which it has been drawn up. A copy of the EU declaration of conformity shall be made available to the relevant authorities upon request. In the case the assessed product is a watercraft, the person who is placing the watercraft on the market or putting it into service shall affix to the watercraft the builder’s plate described in point 2.2 of Part A of Annex I, which shall include the words ‘post-construction assessment’, and the watercraft identification number described in point 2.1 of Part A of Annex I, in accordance with the provisions set out in Section 3.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.