The Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 2000

General duty relating to the placing on the market and putting into service of apparatus

5.—(1) Subject to regulations 6, 7 and 8, no person shall place on the market or put into service any apparatus unless the requirements of paragraph (2) and (in the case of radio equipment) the requirements of paragraph (3) have been complied with in relation to it.

(2) The requirements in respect of any apparatus are that:

(a) it satisfies the essential requirements set out in regulation 4: and without prejudice to other means of complying for the purpose of satisfying those requirements, where a harmonised standard covers one or more of the relevant essential requirements, any apparatus or part thereof constructed in accordance with that harmonised standard or part thereof shall be presumed to comply with that or, as the case may be, those essential requirements;

(b) the information has been provided in accordance with regulation 11;

(c) the appropriate conformity assessment procedures in respect of the apparatus have been carried out in accordance with regulation 9;

(d) the CE marking has been affixed to it by the manufacturer of the apparatus or other responsible person in accordance with regulation 10 and Schedule 7; and

(e) a declaration of conformity has been drawn up in respect of it by the manufacturer of the apparatus or other responsible person in accordance with Schedule 2, 3, 4 or 5.

(3) In respect of radio equipment using frequency bands whose use is not harmonised throughout the Community it is also a requirement that notification of intention to place it on the market shall have been given in accordance with regulation 12.