Revised guidelines to EU product legislation

The Blue Guide provides guidance to EU product legislation which is based on the legislative method called the New Approach or the New Legislative Framework for the marketing of products (NLF). Common elements of this type of legislation are accreditation, different procedures or modules for conformity assessment, notified bodies, CE marking and market surveillance.

This is the first revision of the guidelines since the publication of the first edition in 2000. Since then, the goods package have been adopted, i.e. EU Regulation 765/2008 on accreditation and market surveillance and EU decision 768/2008 on a common framework for the marketing of products. The guidelines have been considered very important in the interpretation and enforcement of existing legislation and are widely referred to.

The Blue Guide can be found on the website of the European Commission and will be translated into all the official languages of the EU.