Personal protective equipment, Tanks and gas cylinders

The draft Resolution proposes to amend 12 technical regulations developed on the basis of EU harmonisation legislation by introducing a new section setting out procedures applicable in emergency situations following the activation by the European Commission of an emergency situation regime in the EU internal market. These procedures would allow products covered by the respective technical regulations to be placed on the market and/or put into service where such products have been manufactured in accordance with the requirements of European, international or national standards or common technical specifications additionally identified by the European Commission. In order to address potential disruptions to the functioning of the EU internal market in the event of an emergency and to ensure the rapid placing on the market of products identified by the European Commission as crisis-relevant goods, the draft Resolution also provides for priority processing by notified bodies of applications for conformity assessment of such products, as well as priority market surveillance of such products. Furthermore, the draft Resolution provides that, under certain conditions, the placing on the market or putting into service, where applicable, of products covered by the relevant technical regulations may not be restricted where an authorisation for their placing on the market and/or putting into service has been issued by the competent authority of an EU Member State and the European…