The Simple Pressure Vessels (Safety) Regulations 1991

The EC mark

14.—(1) A United Kingdom approved body which has issued an EC verification certificate shall apply, or oversee the application of, the EC mark to every vessel covered by the certificate.

(2) A manufacturer who has obtained an EC certificate of conformity may commence series manufacture and apply the EC mark to any vessels covered by the certificate, where he executes an EC declaration of conformity that they conform with a relevant national standard, or, as the case may be, with the relevant prototype.

(3) No person shall in the United Kingdom–

(a) supply a vessel, or a relevant assembly;

(b) being the manufacturer of a vessel, himself take into service that vessel, or a relevant assembly incorporating that vessel; or

(c) having imported a vessel or relevant assembly into the United Kingdom, himself take into service that vessel or a relevant assembly incorporating that vessel, or the first mentioned relevant assembly,

where the vessel, or the vessel incorporated in the relevant assembly, as the case may be, contravenes paragraph (4) below.

(4) A vessel, or a vessel incorporated in a relevant assembly, contravenes this paragraph–

(a) in the case of a vessel in Category A, though not complying with regulation 4(1) above, it bears the EC mark or any other inscription liable to be confused with the EC mark; or

(b) in the case of a vessel in Category B, it bears the EC mark or any inscription liable to be confused with the EC mark.

(5) A person who supplies or takes into service a vessel which does not bear the EC mark shall, at the request of an enforcement authority, or of an officer of such an authority, give any information which he has, or which is available to him, concerning the date when the vessel was first supplied or taken into service in the Community, and explain (so far as he is able) how it comes about that the vessel does not bear that mark.