We may offer further non-cogent services: compliance declarations on machineries and devices, inspections and voluntary checks on lifting devices and equipment, technical advice and training courses for machinery operators and technicians.
We may issue, as accredited IPAF training centre, the PAL (Powered Access Licence) CARD for elevating work platforms operators.
ECO Certificazioni is the Notified Body n. 0714 for the issuing of EC certificates; we have been authorised by the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Labour to issue, for all machineries listed in attachment IV, the EC certificate for the examined specimen or for the series.
We may also issue, when in presence of harmonized and applicable product technical standards, a technical file adequacy certificate or a technical file deposit notice.
We are qualified to perform periodical biennial verifications on freight elevators systems and disabled platforms used by the client, according to the M.I.C.A. circular n. 157296 - 14 April 1997.
ECO Certificazioni is a concrete presence on the territo¬ry and provides its Clients with all informative and technical support they need in order to optimize their resources. Thanks to its territorial diffusion, it offers an efficient verifications package management for companies that have more than one branch.
Law requirements
Article
I of Directive 98/37/EC identifies all equipments which must be considered
‘machineries’ and establishes the observance of essential safety and health
requirements. Machineries are verified through the application of evaluation
procedures as described in article 8, allowing manufacturers to affix the EC
mark and to commercialize their products.
The European Directive Directive
98/37/EC was implemented by our legal order through D.P.R. 459/96.
With
European Directive 98/37/EC coming into force, EC Certificates represent a
cogent requirement, compulsory for the commercialization of all machineries.
The
Directive calls on all manufacturers to affix the EC mark on their machineries
and to draw up a compliance declaration, attesting observance of essential
safety and health requirements defined by the directive itself.
The Directive also
applies to safety components launched separately on the market.
Certification procedures
The
directive distinguishes two groups of machineries:
The
first group collects all machineries listed in attachment IV and considered
most dangerous.
Manufacturers
are obliged to request the intervention of a Notified Body for it to perform:
•
EC Type Examination, when machineries have not been realized in full compliance
with harmonized standards
•
a choice of the following possibilities, when machineries have been built in
full compliance with harmonized standards:
-
EC Type Examination
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Inspection of the Technical File
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Conservation of the Technical File The second group
gathers all other machineries. Intervention of a Notified Body is not
compulsory; manufacturers may however volunteer to have their machineries or
technical file checked by a Notified Body, who will issue an EC certificate.
Obligation addressees
All machinery manufacturers, importers or agents are obliged to affix the EC mark on all products and to draw up a product compliance declaration. The intervention of a Notified Body as ECO Certificazioni is required for all ‘dangerous’ machineries listed in attachment IV of the Directive (e.g. people lifting devices, presses, saws, etc), before their launch on the market.
The solution
ECO Certificazioni is
a Notified Body for the issuing of the EC mark to machineries listed in
attachment IV, according to the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC implementedin Italy through D.P.R. 459/96.
We work with
professional technicians who, thanks to high standard proficiency, training and
qualifications, guarantee each client punctuality and quality; as for both all
services regarding machinery certification and specific needs expressed by the
client.
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