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1. An importer or distributor shall be considered a manufacturer for the purposes of this Regulation and shall be subject to the obligations of a manufacturer pursuant to Article 22, where: it places a product on the market under its own name or trademark; it modifies a product intentionally or the product is unintentionally modified in such a way that compliance with the declaration of performance and conformity, or with the requirements set out in or adopted in accordance with this Regulation may be affected; it makes a product available on the market with a declared use that is different from the declared use attributed by the manufacturer in the process of assessment and verification; it claims for the product characteristics deviating from the characteristics declared by the manufacturer; or it opts to assume the role of the manufacturer.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-17 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.