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Guideline I-18

  • WGP date: 08/01/2016

Question

  • Article 5 of PED provides for the making available on the market or putting into service of pressure equipment or assemblies which comply with the directive. Under what circumstances can the application of national regulations (e.g. by public authorities or private authorised bodies) on periodic testing constitute a barrier to trade?

Answer

Differentiation between in-service inspection periods for similar CE-marked items of pressure equipment for the same purpose should be based on technical reasoning and the conditions of use of the equipment.

Specification of formal requirements for:

  • the involvement of a specific notified body or bodies,
  • the compliance with a specific (e.g. national) design code to the exclusion

of other technically justifiable/equivalent solutions would constitute a barrier to trade.