Recital 55

(55) The activation of the internal market emergency mode, where needed, should also enable the triggering of the application of certain crisis response procedures which introduce adjustments to the rules governing the design, manufacture, conformity assessment and the placing on the market of goods subject to Union harmonised rules as well as to certain rules governing the goods subject to the Union’s general product safety framework. Those crisis response procedures should enable products designated as crisis-relevant goods to be placed swiftly on the market in an emergency context. In the case of harmonised products, the conformity assessment bodies should prioritise the conformity assessment of crisis-relevant goods over any other ongoing applications for other products. Where there are undue delays in the conformity assessment procedures of crisis-relevant goods, the competent authorities of the Member States should be able to issue authorisations for such goods which have not undergone the applicable conformity assessment procedures to be placed on their respective market, provided that they comply with the applicable safety requirements. Such authorisations should be valid only in the territory of the issuing Member State until their validity is extended to the territory of the Union by means of a Commission implementing act. The validity of such authorisations that derogate from conformity assessment procedures should be limited to the duration of the internal market emergency mode. In addition, with a view to facilitating the increase in supply of harmonised and non-harmonised crisis-relevant goods, certain flexibilities should be introduced with respect to the mechanisms of presumption of conformity and presumption of conformity with the general safety requirement, respectively. In the context of an internal market emergency, the manufacturers of crisis-relevant goods should also be able to rely on national and international standards which provide an equivalent level of protection to the European standards the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. With respect to the harmonised crisis-relevant goods alone, in cases where such European standards do not exist or compliance with them is rendered excessively difficult as a result of the disruptions to the internal market, the Commission should be able to issue common specifications providing a presumption of conformity in order to provide ready-to-use technical solutions to the manufacturers.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-27 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.