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". – The CE conformity marking was introduced into Community legislation by a Council decision of 1990 concerning the models for the various phases of the conformity assessment procedures which I intended to be used in the technical harmonisation directives, and by the Council directive of 1993. The latter introduced the CE marking into a number of sectoral technical harmonisation directives.
The CE conformity marking must be affixed to any product falling within the scope of a technical harmonisation directive providing for it. It signifies that the product complies with the legally binding requirements of the applicable technical harmonisation directive. The manufacturer is responsible for affixing the CE conformity marking, although the directives often require the intervention of a third-party conformity-assessment body. Member States are responsible for the designation of such bodies in accordance with the applicable provisions of the directives.
A number of services in the Commission are responsible for technical harmonisation directives providing for the CE conformity marking, although most fall under the responsibility of DG Enterprise. However, the Commission intervenes directly neither in the process of evaluating the conformity of products nor in the award of the CE conformity marking.
All manufacturers of stun weapons falling within the scope of the technical harmonisation directives providing for the CE conformity marking must affix this marking to the relevant products. The Commission does not have information about the number of manufacturers involved.
The Commission has already replied to this issue in 1997. The question was then posed by Mrs Wemheuer. The Commission then noted that a wide variety of equipment could potentially be used for the purpose of torture. Moreover, it is not always possible to determine in advance to what use such equipment will be put. I am therefore of the opinion that it is not feasible to apply a different treatment in the context of these directives to equipment that could potentially be used as an instrument of torture. Nevertheless, and in order to take account of the concerns of the honourable Member of Parliament, the Commission, and especially the Director-General for External Relations is currently preparing a proposal for a Council regulation concerning trade in equipment which may be used for torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The aim of this regulation is
to impose controls on exports of equipment which may be used for such purposes in a third country, which will in principle include electric shock equipment."@en1
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