Article 44 Identification numbers and lists of notified bodies

Summary What does Article 44 of the CRA regulation say?

This is a short administrative article that directly follows Article 43, which governs the designation and notification of conformity assessment bodies.

Article 44 deals with what happens after a body has been formally notified: the Commission assigns it a unique identification number and maintains a public, up-to-date list of all such notified bodies.

The article ensures traceability and transparency in the system of conformity assessment under the regulation.

Important points:

The Commission is required to assign a single identification number to each notified body, even if that body is notified under multiple Union legal acts.
The Commission is required to publish and keep up to date a list of all notified bodies, including their identification numbers and the activities they are notified to perform.
This article applies to the Commission, not to economic operators, and serves a transparency and administrative function within the broader conformity assessment framework.

Springlex's summary of the article, a reading aid, not a substitute for the legal text.

1. The Commission shall assign an identification number to a notified body.
2. It shall assign a single such number even where the body is notified under several Union legal acts.
1. The Commission shall make publicly available the list of the bodies notified under this Regulation, including the identification numbers that have been allocated to them and the activities for which they have been notified.
2. The Commission shall ensure that that list is kept up to date.

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