Certificate of Conformity

[nicholsong]

In anticipation of Qs to answer to re-register my MH in Poland, I am trying to find out if the system for issue of CoC was in existence in 2003 when it was first registered.

I have searched the internet but can find little about start date of the system. The current EU Directive is dated 2007, but there may have been a previous version.

Can anyone please give me chapter and verse as to when the system started.

With thanks

Geoff

 

[Clipgate]

It's been a while however my memory says CofC started in 1995

 

[pappajohn]

1 January 1993

Certificates of Conformity have been defined in EU's Single Internal Market and Type Approval Directive (EC-92). EU's single internal market became official on 1 January 1993. Part of the “EC-92” effort was to remove the technical barriers preventing the free movement of products within the EU market.

The legislation established an EU type approval system to replace the national schemes of the twelve member states. In 1996, the EU type approval system became mandatory. Vehicles with an EU type approval can be marketed anywhere in the European Community. Therefore, a vehicle only needs to receive the type approval certification in one EU country in order to be accepted in all of the other member countries.