Recital 35 Manufacturers' due diligence immediately after transitional period

Immediately after the transitional period for the application of this Regulation, 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; of 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; that integrates one or several components means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system; sourced from third parties which are also subject to this Regulation may not be able to verify, as part of its due diligence obligation, that the manufacturers 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; of those components means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system; have demonstrated conformity with this Regulation by checking, for instance, if the components means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system; already bear the CE marking means a marking by which a manufacturer indicates that a product with digital elements and the processes put in place by the manufacturer are in conformity with the essential cybersecurity requirements set out in Annex I and other applicable Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing;. This may be the case where the components means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system; have been integrated before this Regulation becomes applicable to the manufacturers 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; of those components means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system;. In such a case, 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; integrating such components means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system; should exercise due diligence through other means.