The Community and Switzerland shall grant mutual recognition of reports, certificates, approvals and marks of conformity issued by the bodies listed in Annex 1 and of the manufacturer`s declarations of conformity attesting conformity with the requirements of the other Party in the fields referred to in Article 3(2). In order to avoid duplication of procedures where the Swiss and Community requirements are considered equivalent, the Community and Switzerland shall mutually accept reports, certificates and approvals issued by the bodies listed in Annex 1 and declarations of conformity by the manufacturer attesting conformity with their respective requirements in the areas referred to in Article 3. The manufacturer`s reports, certificates, approvals and declarations of conformity must indicate, in particular, compliance with Community legislation. The marks of conformity required by the legislation of a Party shall be affixed to products placed on the market by that Party.3. The Committee provided for in Article 10 shall determine the cases in which paragraph 2 shall apply. Article 2Definitions1. For the purposes of this Agreement, `conformity assessment` means a systematic assessment of the extent to which a product, process or service meets certain requirements; »; `conformity assessment body` means a body governed by public or private law whose activity involves the execution of all or one stage of the conformity assessment procedure; `designating authority` means an authority which has the legal power to designate, suspend, withdraw or lift the suspension of conformity assessment bodies under its competence.2. The definitions in ISO/IEC Guide 2 (1996 edition) and European Standard EN 45020 (1993 edition) relating to “General terms and their definitions of standardization activities” may be used to determine the meaning of the general terms contained in this Convention for conformity assessment. Article 3Scope1.
This Agreement establishes the mandatory conformity assessment procedures resulting from the laws, regulations and administrative provisions listed in Annex 1.2. Annex 1 defines the product sectors covered by this Agreement. The Annex is divided into sectoral chapters, which are essentially subdivided as follows:Section I: Laws, regulations and administrative provisions; Section II: Conformity assessment bodies; Section III: Designation of authorities; Section IV: Specific rules for the designation of conformity assessment bodies; Section V: any additional provisions.3. . . .