§5.3.2 Notification process

— Notification is the act of the notifying authority informing the Commission and the other Member States that a conformity assessment body has been designated to carry out conformity assessment according to a Union harmonisation act, and fulfils the requirements relating to notified bodies set out in that Union harmonisation act. — Member States take the final responsibility for the competence of their notified bodies with respect to the other Member States and the EU institutions. — Accreditation is the preferred way to assess the technical competence of notified bodies. — The notification of a notified body is sent by the notifying authority to the Commission and the other Member States via NANDO - the electronic notification tool developed and managed by the Commission where a list of all notified bodies can be found.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07