From 1 July 2013, the CE Marking of construction products
covered by harmonised European Standards (hEN) is legally required.

The EU Construction Products Regulation (No. 305/2011) (CPR)
lays down the harmonised conditions for the sale and supply of construction
products and is directly applicable in its entirety into EU law. The CPR
replaces the existing Construction Products Directive (CPD) which was
previously voluntary for products sold in the UK.

The CPR harmonises the methods of testing and assessment of
products through the harmonised European Standards and creates a solid
technical basis for manufacturers to test their products, and provides a
consistent manner for the information to be expressed.

Using these standards, the manufacturer is then in a
position to make a declaration of performance (DoP) of their product, as
defined in the CPR. The DoP gives the manufacturer the opportunity to deliver
the information about the essential characteristics of their product they want
to deliver to the market.

On the basis of the information contained in the DoP, the
user will decide to buy, amongst all the products available on the market, the
one which is fit for the use he intends to give to such product, and he assumes
the full responsibility of such decision. For more information, please
visit https://www.gov.uk/ce-marking

Since Brexit, the above legislation has been laid into UK
law as the Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations, which
are fundamentally identical to the existing EU CPR regulations, however the CE
mark has been replaced with a UKCA mark for GB markets. The government has also
recently laid legislation to continue recognition of current EU requirements
for a range of product regulations, including the CE mark for a range of
product regulations. This means businesses will have the flexibility to use
either the UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) or CE marking to sell construction
products in Great Britain (GB) indefinitely. Regardless, Bond It has been
updating our markings to include both UKCA and CE on our relevant products, in
preparation for when UKCA marks become mandatory.