Welcome to another blog in our ongoing series, Ask Lewis Bass!

This series features actual submitted questions from companies in the industries we provide engineering safety consulting services to.

Topics covered include those associated with our work in 3rd party field labeling, SEMI S2/S8/EMC/F47 testing, CE Marking evaluations, and general engineering questions.

Question:

Hi Lewis Bass,

We are building a series of identical systems for shipment to Spain this quarter. Each system has the same model number and overall composition (components, design, etc), but with different serial numbers. Do we need a CE Mark evaluation for each unique serial number for these identical machines?

Asked by Fred in San Jose, CA

Lewis Bass:

Hello Fred,

Thanks for this great question about CE marking duplicate systems.

No, you do not have to perform a new CE mark evaluation for each system if the models and makeup of the systems are 1:1 and identical to each other. Only one CE mark evaluation suffices in this case and in the final report and DoC (Declaration of Conformity) you would simply list each corresponding serial number for each system that is of the same model and makeup.

I hope this helps!

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