CONSTRUCTION FIXINGS Obviously the European industry is unanimous in wanting the
DoP to be downloadable from the manufacturer’s website, and not necessarily accompany the product in print (“How can we provide a DoP on paper complete with all the technical data in all languages required by the Member States where the product is placed in the market, in a format readable on a construction site? Many of our products are small and there is no room… we certainly cannot do as for the chocolate eggs!”). But CPR is not clear on this point. Despite 1st
July looming and every
company supposed to be ready with its DoP system already up and running, the debate has not yet been completed; the Member States are still not unanimous; nor has the Commission expressed itself clearly. And you… have you already tried to draw up a DoP in advance or ask the producers? If you’re a manufacturer, you should draw up your DoPs now. Considering the shipments of products from the Far East, for example, in January you may already be at the limit to set up and run the Company DoP system by July. If you are a final user, surf the Internet to see who has already done something.
I happened to create, without knowing it, a DoP for my
personal use. Two weeks ago I renovated the bathroom in my house. To
solve a particular technical problem, I searched the internet and found a product from a small Portuguese company, which would solve the situation very well. Buying it was not a problem: I got it in three days time. But the challenge was to convince the Italian technicians to accept it. We know that in the world of construction only the multinationals are able to impose their
‘foreigners’ products; for the other ones every mason is linked to the products of his country. So I took from the website the technical information about
the performance of the product I got, and about other competing products, and I transcribed them in tables of the same format, so that they were comparable. In practice, I created a DoP in Italian and gave it to the technicians. There were performances, the reference standard, the CE mark. What else was needed? The comparison was simple, in my case, even overwhelming. What better chance for European SMEs? No need for expensive seminars to promote the products raising awareness among designers (which SME can pay the cost?), or a collection of quality marks, or certification of the new invention (which SME can pay for them?). The product is now successfully installed, and I am quite sure that this is not the last time the technicians will use it: now they are aware of its existence. In the last 60 years we have been trying in every way to
unify Europe: the Euro currency, the Erasmus program for student exchanges between the various European universities, the Marie-Curie scholarships for researchers, fundings from the Seventh Framework Programme - only to find, with a big surprise, the unplanned disruptive effect of the Internet, social networks, the low costs. What unites us more? The Latin text about the indivisibility of Europe - the ‘Hymn to Joy’ by Ludwig van Beethoven, Official Hymn of the European Union - or the crude trumpet preceding the announcement “Welcome, you have arrived on yet another on-time flight”? So, get ready for 1st
July and try to believe in the DoP effect.
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