ENEC

ENEC - The European Safety Mark

At the instigation of European manufacturers' associations, European testing and certification centres agreed to evaluate the safety requirements to be met by electrical products throughout Europe in a uniform manner. The result of this initiative was the ENEC Accord and the ENEC Mark (E N E C = European Norms Electrical Certification). Today, the accord regulates the certification of lighting, office equipment and components.

The purpose

The ENEC Accord, the single testing and certification process provide you the access to markets within the EU, EFTA members and many Eastern European countries. You are no longer need to go through the time consuming and costly business of applying for individual certification in each country. The ENEC certificate gives you the certainty that your products offer "European-level" safety which has been officially verified by an independent testing and certification body.

The procedure

The compliance of your product with relevant European standards is a requirement for awarding an ENEC certificate. Manufacturing companies need to have a QM system in place (e.g. based on DIN EN ISO 9002). The testing center performing certification checks at regular intervals that the requirements are met according to the given system.

Product verification and certification in accordance with European standards, such as those on which the ENEC testing procedure is based, have long featured among the range of services that TÜV Rheinland Product Safety offers. Contact us as soon as your early development stage of a new product has started and let us assure your quality of product.