Article 18 Authorised representatives

A manufacturer means a natural or legal person who develops or manufactures products with digital elements or has products with digital elements designed, developed or manufactured, and markets them under its name or trademark, whether for payment, monetisation or free of charge; may, by a written mandate, appoint an authorised representative means a natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks;.

The obligations laid down in Article 13(1) to (11), Article 13(12), first subparagraph, and Article 13(14) shall not form part of the authorised representative means a natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks;’s mandate.

1. keep the EU declaration of conformity referred to in Article 28 and the technical documentation referred to in Article 31 at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities means a market surveillance authority as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020; for at least 10 years after the product with digital elements means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately; has been placed on the market or for the support period means the period during which a manufacturer is required to ensure that vulnerabilities of a product with digital elements are handled effectively and in accordance with the essential cybersecurity requirements set out in Part II of Annex I;, whichever is longer;

2. further to a reasoned request from a market surveillance authority means a market surveillance authority as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;, provide that authority with all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the product with digital elements means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately;;

3. cooperate with the market surveillance authorities means a market surveillance authority as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;, at their request, on any action taken to eliminate the risks means the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident; posed by a product with digital elements means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately; covered by the authorised representative means a natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks;’s mandate.