HEALTH & SAFETY


UKCA AND CE MARKING: CLEARING Up THE CONFUSION


Sumitomo (SHI) Demag managing director Nigel Flowers teams up with CE specialist Derek Coulson to reassure and examine the future landscape of UKCA machinery certification and how to avoid sleep walking into a minefield of risks. With the first steps post-split agreed, both review the grey areas, new rules pertaining to the role of importers, and how future safety certifications align to the national sovereignty aspect of Brexit as well as international safety standards.


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or over 25 years, machinery, injection moulding cells included, have been subject to the CE (Conformité


Européenne) marking process when put into service in the European market (EU and EEA). The mark, designed to ease the free movement of machinery and show conformance with one or


more European product safety Directives, just got a whole lot more complex. Following Brexit, from 1 January 2021,


the UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) marking will replace the longstanding CE marking for goods sold within England, Wales and Scotland. As there is no hard border in Ireland, free movement of people and goods continue to apply, as does the CE marking. Adding a further layer of complexity, in Northern Ireland a third logo – UKNI – will be used when goods subject to CE marking are performed by a GB Authorised Body (as per Article 7(3) of the Northern Ireland protocol). Additionally, EU recognised notified bodies can


Nigel Flowers, MD Sumitomo (SHI) Demag UK


CE specialist Derek Coulson


also certify goods for the NI market. So, what do all these certification changes


mean for a European-based machinery builder like Sumitomo (SHI) Demag supplying moulding systems, periphery equipment and robotics to customers located in Great Britain or Ireland?


SUBtlE SplItS Found on everything from plastic toys to medical devices, lightbulbs to robots, the CE mark has for many businesses and consumers been a recognisable bedrock of safety. The introduction of the UKCA mark doesn’t change this, notes Flowers. “Aside from several subtle changes to the text in documents to reflect UK legislative requirements, the transposition to UKCA right


From 1 January 2021, the UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) marking will replace the longstanding CE


marking for goods sold within England, Wales and Scotland


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