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The main purpose of the identification element is to enable market surveillance authorities to identify an individual product and to link it to an EU Declaration of Conformity. If, when the market surveillance takes place, the product is still in its packaging, it will be easy to identify the element and thus ensure that the corresponding EU Declaration of Conformity regards the product in question. It would be more complicated to have to open the packaging and find elements on the individual items and then link these to a particular EU Declaration of Conformity.
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.