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Keeping a cool head helps

Christian Jahn

Insecurity among the people involved – that is the result when a familiar system is replaced by a new one. And this very process is now being observed with replacement of the Construction Products Directive (Council Directive 89/106/EEC) by the Construction Products Regulation (EU) No. 305/2011 within the European Union. The new regulation stipulates conditions for the marketing of construction products and reformulates a number of the requirements concerned. In addition, it redefines in part the procedure required before a product can be placed on the market – the notified bodies must again...

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