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Rebreathers fall under the scope of Personal Protective Equipment. This is a European law which must be complied with before this type of equipment may be supplied to the market. One of the ways to ensure compliance is to use the Harmonised Euro norm Standards as published in the Official Journal. A website was setup for this purpose by my colleagues here http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise.../ppe/index.htm
and here http://www.newapproach.org/
In this you can get the text to the PPE Directive free of charge. One point to note is that the Standards are not law, they are a means of compliance with the law. If equipment is manufactured in accordance with the specified published Harmonised Standards, it is deemed to comply with the Essential Health and Safety Requirements covered by those standards.
In addition, you will be required to have assessment criteria completed by a Notified body as a legal requirement to applying the CE Marking to PPE.

Brent.


PS
Auzzie has a mutual recognition agreement with the EU regarding the CE marking, if you need any help, our Austrailia office might be able to give you soem assistance.

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