Notified bodies
11. For the purposes of these Regulations, a notified body is a body which has been appointed to carry out one or more of the conformity assessment procedures specified in Article 8 of the ATEX Directive and referred to in regulation 10 above which has been—
(a)appointed as a notified body in Great Britain pursuant to regulation 12 below;
(b)appointed as a notified body in Northern Ireland; or
(c)appointed by a member State other than the United Kingdom,
and in the case of (a), (b) and (c) above has been notified by the member State concerned to the Commission and the other member States pursuant to Article 9(1) of the ATEX Directive.