Directive 2014/29/EU of 26 February 2014, relating to making simple pressure vessels available on the market, on 20 April 2016 replaced the directive 2009/105/EC of 16 September 2009. The directive is called shortly SPVD Directive and concerns simple pressure vessels manufactured in series.
Simple pressure vessel means a welded vessel subjected to an internal gauge pressure greater than 0.5 bar which is intended to contain air or nitrogen and which is not intended to be fired.
The following vessels are excluded from the scope of this Directive:
- vessels specifically designed for nuclear use, failure of which may result in an emission of radioactivity,
- vessels specifically intended for installation on, or the propulsion of, ships and aircraft,
- fire extinguishers.
The Polish Register of Shipping executes all procedures of simple pressure vessels conformity assessment with SPVD Directive.
At the conformity assessment of simple pressure vessels the following conformity assessment procedures may be applied:
- EU type-examination (module B) – Annex II of the Directive,
- conformity to type based on internal production control plus supervised vessel testing (Module C1) – Annex II of the Directive,
- conformity to type based on internal production control plus supervised vessel checks at
- random intervals (Module C2) – Annex II of the Directive,
- conformity to type based on internal production control (module C) – Annex II of the Directive.
If you wish to acquire conformity marking for simple pressure equipment you produce or sell, just:
- choose the module, i.e. conformity assessment procedure, the product is to be subjected to and
- send us completed Application Form for Product Certification (Submitting application is not an obligation to use our services, it is only the basis to prepare our offer for your Company).
If you have any doubts as regards module that shall be applied to certification of your product or wish to get further information on our services, we invite you to contact us by (contact data in the right hand panel). We will provide any information and indicate procedures which are obligatory at granting CE marking.
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