b) Conformity assessment procedures and notified bodies (87)
Former UK Notified Bodies have lost their status as EU Notified Bodies. As such, UK bodies are no longer in a position to perform conformity assessment tasks pursuant to Union product legislation. When the applicable conformity assessment procedure requires or provides for the possibility of third party intervention, a certificate delivered by an EU Notified Body is required for products placed on the Union market as of 1 January 2021. Economic operators must have applied for a new certificate to an EU Notified Body, or arranged for a transfer of the file and the corresponding certificate from the UK Notified Body to an EU Notified Body, to take over the responsibility for that certificate before the end of the transition period, on the basis of a contractual arrangement between the manufacturer, the UK Notified Body, and the EU Notified Body. When a certificate has been transferred, both the EU Declaration of Conformity (drawn up by the manufacturer) and the Notified Body Certificate must be updated accordingly: these documents will need to mention that the certificate is now under the responsibility of an EU Notified Body and indicate both the old UK and the new EU Notified Body’s details / identification numbers. If the above mentioned product documentation is in order, there is no need to change the Notified Body number for products already placed on the EU or the UK market or manufactured before the transfer of certificate took place and not yet placed on the EU or the UK market. However, products manufactured after the transfer of the certificate has taken place should be marked with the new EU Notified Body number and it will not be possible to continue to use the UK Notified Body number. (88)
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.