The Construction Products Regulations 1991

Requirement to keep available and give information about products which bear the EC mark

6.—(1) This regulation applies–

(a) where the person who has affixed the EC mark to a construction product is established in the United Kingdom, to that person;

(b) where the person who has affixed the EC mark to a construction product is not established in the United Kingdom, and the first place of supply of the product in the Community is in the United Kingdom, to the person who supplies the product on the first occasion on which it is supplied in the United Kingdom.

(2) A person to whom this regulation applies shall, for a period of 10 years after the material data, keep the EC certificate of conformity or, as the case may be, the EC declaration of conformity relating to the product, or a copy of it, available for inspection by an enforcement authority or any of its officers and, if required to do so by any such authority or officer at a reasonable time, produce the document so kept and permit any such officer to take copies of it.

(3) In paragraph (2) above, “the material date” means–

(a) in the case of a person to whom this regulation applies by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) above, the date on which the EC mark is affixed;

(b) in the case of a person to whom this regulation applies by virtue of paragraph (1)(b) above, the date on which the product is first supplied in the United Kingdom.