Where a directive requires products to be independently tested, inspected or certified, this must be undertaken by a body approved for the purpose of the directive by a government of the community and notified to the European Commission. Notified bodies can be laboratories, certification bodies or inspection bodies.

Bodies can be notified for all conformity assessment routes in the directive or for individual ones. The requirement of the routes will determine the type of organisation which is notified. For example, for a route which stipulates type-examination the notified body would normally be a test house or product certification body. For modules stipulating ISO 9001 approval the notified body would be a quality management system certification body.

Lloyd's Register Verification and LRQA have notified body status for the directives below. If you would like further information, please call the appropriate telephone number as listed below.

For:

• Medical Devices
• In-vitro Diagnostics
• Noise Emissions (information on lrqa.com site)
• Lifts (information on lrqa.com site)
• Personal Protective Equipment (information on lrqa.com site)
• Construction Product Directive (information on lrqa.com site)

Contact our LRQA business advisors on
0800 783 2179 or e-mail: enquiries@lrqa.co.uk

For:

• Pressure Equipment Directive
• Transportable Pressure Equipment
• Simple Pressure Vessels
• Machinery Directive

Contact Lloyd’s Register EMEA – UK Energy on
+44 (0) 24 7651 8630 or e-mail: ukenergy@lr.org

For:

• Interoperability of the European High-Speed Railway System (information on lrqa.com site)

Contact Lloyd’s Register Rail on
+44 (0)1773 828 359 or e-mail: belper@lrrail.com

For:

• Marine Equipment (information on lrqa.com site)