EU AUTOMAKERS FORCED TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF CONFORMITY
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUTOMAKERS across the European Union (EU) will from next April have to issue comprehensive and detailed certificates of conformity with each new vehicles illustrating compliance with EU technical standards.
These are not simple declarations. There are three models of certificate: one for completed vehicles made by one manufacturer; another for completed vehicles made by more than one automaker - say the chassis made by one and the rest by another; and a third certificate for each of these elements as they are passed to a second manufacturer. In ...
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