The surveillance was conducted from April to August 2024.
Background
The EU Regulation on market surveillance and compliance of products is incorporated into Norwegian law through the EEA Goods Act. The purpose of the regulation is to strengthen surveillance of products covered by harmonised goods regulations with a view to ensuring that only goods that comply with applicable regulations are sold in the internal market.
Havtil is the market surveillance authority responsible for the regulations that implement harmonised product directives, notably the Machinery Directive, the Pressure Equipment Directive and the ATEX Directive (equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres). The Directives also apply to products for use in petroleum activities within the EEA, i.e. in principle, activities at onshore facilities and on fixed facilities offshore.
Market surveillance is an obligation incumbent on the national authorities to ensure that only safe products are marketed in Norway. Market surveillance is performed by proactive or reactive market inspections that entail checking that products meet applicable safety requirements. Reactive market surveillance is performed primarily in response to incidents or suspicions that products do not meet the legal requirements.
Objective
The objective of the market surveillance was to audit how Wide complies with the requirements deriving from FUSEX, the regulations concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres, for ATEX products placed on the market.
Result
The surveillance identified the following non-conformities:
- Error in compliance statement
- Error in instructions for use
- Technical documentation for the product is incomplete or non-existent.
- Missing assurance of compliance in serial production.
What happens now?
We have asked Wide to report to us by 6 September 2024 on how the non-conformities will be addressed.