Overview of the legal framework and standards to support the placing of products and services on the European single market

It is recommended to have basic knowledge in the related field to follow these trainings.

OVERVIEW

Technical standardization plays an essential role for products and services: by defining the state of the art, standards help organizations to focus their design and production activities on tasks that bring real added value to the end product, but they also facilitate the uptake of new goods by the market, especially through the quality they conveyed by their founding principles, such as openness and transparency.

Furthermore, in the European context, standards play an even more direct role by helping to remove barriers to market entry. Particularly, standards can be an efficient instrument to demonstrate the product or service’s conformity to legal requirements when they support the in-force legislation. In this context, the goal of this training is to introduce participants to the fundamentals of technical standardization, present the legislative framework for placing products or services on the European single market and provide organizations tools to limit the risks associated with product and services marketing.

LEARNING OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES

• Understand the European safety regulation and legislative framework shaping the single market
• Support your business with standards
• Provide tools to identify the harmonized standards applicable to your products

1 - Standardization

• Definitions
• Development process of standards
• Usage and benefits of standards
• How to find standards that support your innovation
• National standardization community

2 - Product safety and product compliance

• Regulation on general product safety
• New Legislative Framework
• Regulation on market surveillance and compliance of products
• Sectoral legislation according to the product
• Essentials requirements
• Role of harmonized standards
• Concept of presumption of conformity

3 - Conformity assessment

• Concept
• Different types of assessment (activities and modules)
• Notification bodies

• Interaction and collaboration
• Theoretical and practical aspects

A certificate of participation issued by ILNAS, a recognized training organization, will be provided at the end of the course.

• The course will take place on ILNAS premises
• The course can be delivered on demand.
• The course may be provided at our offices or within your organization.