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SOGS N356 EN<br />
For the attention of Mr. Vardakas<br />
NOTE TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION<br />
Subject: Procedures for the assessment, inspection and monitoring of notified bodies<br />
At the last meeting of the Senior Officials Group on Standardisation and Conformity<br />
Assessment Policy (SOGS), following the contributions of the United Kingdom and<br />
Sweden, you requested information on the practices of the other Member States regarding<br />
notification of the bodies responsible for assessing conformity <strong>und</strong>er the New Approach<br />
Directives on technical harmonisation.<br />
The French authorities said at the time that they would put forward - <strong>und</strong>er the French<br />
Presidency - a memorandum on this subject with the aim of increasing the harmonisation<br />
of practices in this area. For this purpose they have set up an inter-ministerial working<br />
party to discuss specific proposals to harmonise Community practices, on the basis of<br />
national practices.<br />
Pending this proposal, which should reach you at the beginning of the French presidency,<br />
they are sending you the procedures applied in France for notification of the bodies<br />
responsible for assessing conformity.<br />
First, although the diversity of the sectors of activity covered by the New Approach<br />
Directives means that the procedure has to include some special provisions, often linked<br />
to the rules previously governing the sector, it is nevertheless true that national policy in<br />
this area is based on homogeneous principles, mainly because of the existence of interministerial<br />
coordination in France.<br />
Consequently, notification of the bodies takes place after the selection criteria have been<br />
drawn up, the potential applicants have been informed, the applications have been<br />
examined and, finally, a decision has been taken by the ministerial department or<br />
departments responsible for regulating these operations.<br />
These stages prior to notification of the European Commission constitute authorisation by<br />
the public authorities. The authorities then notify the Commission of the bodies, an<br />
operation known as designation.<br />
The decision is then made binding for the notified bodies as regards the obligations on<br />
them to observe certain criteria and to inform the notifying bodies of the performance of<br />
their work and organisational and operational developments.<br />
1. CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF NOTIFIED BODIES<br />
Generally speaking, the French authorities follow the instructions given in Commission<br />
documents CERTIF 97/1, 97/4, 98/4 and 98/5 and those issued for implementing each of<br />
the directives.