Products intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres must comply with the essential health and safety requirements of European Union Directive 2014/34/EU commonly referred to as the ATEX Directive. In order to determine whether a product meets the requirements of the directive, appropriate conformity assessment procedures must be applied.
According to the ATEX Directive, the level of protection and the associated assessment procedures depend directly on the level of hazard and the environment in which the device will operate.
Module A: Internal production control (Annex VIII) + Handover of technical documentation mainly concerns the manufacturer, it is his responsibility to carry out the design, production, quality supervision of the product in accordance with the essential safety requirements of the ATEX Directive. As an additional activity to which the manufacturer must pay attention is the retention of the documentation in the Notified Body. Documentation should be retained for 10 years after the end of production. The J.S. Hamilton Notified Body accepts documentation in both paper and electronic form. Module A of the Directive does not allow for analysis of the documentation by the Notified Body, the stored documentation should arrive at the Notified Body sealed and locked together with the application for storage.
The manufacturer takes full responsibility for the content of this documentation. In case of uncertainty about the documentation and the design of the equipment, the manufacturer may request a non-compulsory conformity assessment of his product.
