CE Marking Construction Products (CPR)

This Regulation lays down conditions for the placing or making available on the market of construction products by establishing harmonized rules on how to express the performance of construction products in relation to their essential characteristics and on the use of CE marking on those products.

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply: 

1. ‘construction product’ means any product or kit which is produced and placed on the market for incorporation in a permanent manner in construction works or parts thereof and the performance of which has an effect on the performance of the construction works with respect to the basic requirements for construction works; 

2. ‘kit’ means a construction product placed on the market by a single manufacturer as a set of at least two separate components that need to be put together to be incorporated in the construction works; 

3. ‘construction works’ means buildings and civil engineering works; 

4. ‘essential characteristics’ means those characteristics of the construction product which relate to the basic requirements for construction works; 

5. ‘performance of a construction product’ means the performance related to the relevant essential characteristics, expressed by level or class, or in a description; 

6. ‘level’ means the result of the assessment of the performance of a construction product in relation to its essential characteristics, expressed as a numerical value; 

7. ‘class’ means a range of levels, delimited by a minimum and a maximum value, of performance of a construction product; 

8. ‘threshold level’ means a minimum or maximum performance level of an essential characteristic of a construction product; 

9. ‘product-type’ means the set of representative performance levels or classes of a construction product, in relation to its essential characteristics, produced using a given combination of raw materials or other elements in a specific production process; 10. ‘harmonised technical specifications’ means harmonised standards and European Assessment Documents; L 88/10 Official Journal of the European Union 4.4.2011 EN 11. ‘harmonised standard’ means a standard adopted by one of the European standardisation bodies listed in Annex I to Directive 98/34/EC, on the basis of a request issued by the Commission, in accordance with Article 6 of that Directive; 

12. ‘European Assessment Document’ means a document adopted by the organisation of TABs for the purposes of issuing European Technical Assessments; 

13. ‘European Technical Assessment’ means the documented assessment of the performance of a construction product, in relation to its essential characteristics, in accordance with the respective European Assessment Document; 

14. ‘intended use’ means the intended use of the construction product as defined in the applicable harmonised technical specification; 

15. ‘Specific Technical Documentation’ means documentation demonstrating that methods within the applicable system for assessment and verification of constancy of performance have been replaced by other methods, provided that the results obtained by those other methods are equivalent to the results obtained by the test methods of the corresponding harmonised standard;

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1. When a construction product is covered by a harmonised standard or conforms to a European Technical Assessment which has been issued for it, the manufacturer shall draw up a declaration of performance when such a product is placed on the market. 

2. When a construction product is covered by a harmonised standard or conforms to a European Technical Assessment which has been issued for it, information in any form about its performance in relation to the essential characteristics, as defined in the applicable harmonised technical specification, may be provided only if included and specified in the declaration of performance except where, in accordance with Article 5, no declaration of performance has been drawn up. 

3. By drawing up the declaration of performance, the manufacturer shall assume responsibility for the conformity of the construction product with such declared performance. In the absence of objective indications to the contrary, Member States shall presume the declaration of performance drawn up by the manufacturer to be accurate and reliable.

1. The general principles set out in Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 shall apply to the CE marking. 

2. The CE marking shall be affixed to those construction products for which the manufacturer has drawn up a declaration of performance in accordance with Articles 4 and 6. If a declaration of performance has not been drawn up by the manufacturer in accordance with Articles 4 and 6, the CE marking shall not be affixed. By affixing or having affixed the CE marking, manufacturers indicate that they take responsibility for the conformity of the construction product with the declared performance as well as the compliance with all applicable requirements laid down in this Regulation and in other relevant Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing. 

The rules for affixing the CE marking provided for in other relevant Union harmonisation legislation shall apply without prejudice to this paragraph. 

3. For any construction product covered by a harmonised standard, or for which a European Technical Assessment has been issued, the CE marking shall be the only marking which attests conformity of the construction product with the declared performance in relation to the essential characteristics, covered by that harmonised standard or by the European Technical Assessment. 

In this respect, Member States shall not introduce any references or shall withdraw any references in national measures to a marking attesting conformity with the declared performance in relation to the essential characteristics covered by a harmonised standard other than the CE marking.

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