VLOG – What is an initial assessment?

In the context of homologation / type approval of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts, „Conformity of Production“ (CoP) in accordance with EU Regulation 2018/858 is often a critical point. This applies without restriction to both manufacturers of vehicles and/or vehicle parts and their downstream supply chains. However, this obligation is unfortunately too often overlooked…

Mark and his team were flexible to the needs and questions of the participants and were not afraid to customize the curriculum to the group

A product recall – what does that mean? Almost everyone is familiar with the term „recall“ – most people know what it means and many have already been affected themselves. But what exactly is that? In principle, every company that launches any products on the market also has a responsibility to ensure that users or…

Durch viele Umstrukturierungen in kurzer Zeit ging dem Bereich CoP das komplette Team verloren. Da CoP (Conformity of Production) eine gesetzlichen Anforderung ist und Lücken in den Nachweisen fatale Folgen haben können – selbst viele Jahre, gar Jahrzehnte später, kontaktierte uns der CoP-Verantwortliche mit der Bitte um Unterstützung.

The market surveillance authority was already involved and a recall was ordered because a supposed product defect was revealed in an accident.
Under the correct state of the law, no recall should have been ordered at all.
If we had not discovered this error, the company would have had to carry out an expensive and time-consuming recall, which was not „legal“ at all. We were able to avert the recall!

Mandatory from December 2024 The new Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988 came into force on December 13, 2024 and replaces the previous Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC and thus also the ProdSG to a large extent. There is already a draft law for the corresponding amendment to the ProdSG. As the Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988…