The certification of recreational craft involves assessing whether a given craft meets the essential requirements of Directive 2013/53/EU (RCD) and the relevant harmonized standards. This ensures that the craft can be made available for sale or use within Europe.
Certificates of conformity with the RCD Directive are required for recreational craft of any type, with any propulsion system, with a hull length of 2.5 m to 24 m, both complete and partially equipped, as well as their components.
Detailed scope of RCD Directive application and the list of products excluded from the scope of the Directive is available here.
The list of the EU law regulations specifying requirements concerning the certification of recreational craft for conformity with RCD Directive is available here.
Directive 2013/53/EU introduces the division of recreational craft for 4 design categories.
The process for assessing the conformity of recreational craft and personal watercraft, as well as their components, in accordance with Directive 2013/53/EU, is described in the Conformity Assessment Program RCD.
If you wish to acquire conformity marking for the recreational craft you manufacture and/or sell, please complete on-line application form.
Materials to download
- Application for conformity assessment in scope of recreational craft directive
- Declaration of Conformity for Post-Construction Assessment of Recreational under the requirements of Directive 2013/53/EU - PCA
- Directive 2013/53/EU - applies from 18.01.2016
- Application scope of directive 2013/53/EU
- Design categories for recreational craft
- Procedures for conformity assessment applied in directive 2013/53/EU
- Assignment of CIN number
