Two obligations arrive with the first shipment of a charger into the European market: a registration in each country where it is placed on the market, and a marking on the product itself. Neither is a factory deliverable, and both …

A distributor asked for a substance statement on a Tuesday and wanted it by the end of the week. The answer took three weeks, because the declarations had never been collected from the suppliers and nobody could say which version …

Two bills of materials arrived at the same review. One carried a supplier declaration for every part, with the exemption claimed where an exemption applied. The other carried a single line stating that the product is compliant. The first passed …

Three marks, one test standard, and a quotation difference that can reach a third of the compliance budget. The marks are issued by different organisations, all recognised for the purpose, and the technical content they assess is largely the same. …

A retailer's compliance team stopped a shipment because the file described a recognised component where the construction called for a listed one. The product was sound and the testing had been done; the difference between the two categories had never …

Two shipments of the same charger arrived in Australia in the same week. One cleared, because the importer had a certificate from an accredited certifier, a registration on the national database and a compliance folder with the test reports in …

A charger that already holds a European file starts from a different point in Korea, and not the point most brands assume. The test evidence is often reusable, the schedule is usually set by two other things: the category the …

A charger that satisfies every other market can still stop at the Japanese border over a label. The product is sound, the testing is done, and the packaging does not carry the information the scheme requires, in the form it …

Two authorisation routes exist for a charger in the United States, and choosing the wrong one costs a second test programme plus a relabel of everything already produced. The route follows the product's radio behaviour and the party who takes …

Two brands shipped the same charger to the United Kingdom and produced two different labelling programmes. One had planned for Great Britain only and printed one label; the other also serves Northern Ireland, which follows a different arrangement, and neede……

There is no CE certificate for a charger. The marking is a declaration that the product meets the requirements that apply to it, supported by a technical file the manufacturer keeps. Brands search for the certificate because suppliers offer one, …

An audit found the technical file describing a coil that the factory had replaced eight months earlier for supply reasons. The product was compliant, the replacement was equivalent in every measured respect, and the file was wrong, because nobody had …