A body that performs conformity-assessment activities such as calibration, testing, certification, or inspection.
Readers may see an external laboratory or certifier and assume it carries formal notified-body authority. The implementation risk is accepting an assessment output without recording the activity performed, scope, accreditation or notification status, and relationship to the manufacturer’s technical file.
ESPR and the EU Battery Regulation use aligned wording: a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection. Notification status is a separate designation layer, so assessment activity and notified-body status should not be collapsed.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
Reference: Article 2, point 52
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
Reference: Article 3, point 40
A conformity assessment body performs conformity-assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection; in practical shorthand, those activities may appear as calibration, testing, certification or inspection. It is not the same as a notified body unless it has the relevant notification status for the applicable framework.
Record a body identifier, assessment activity, calibration scope, testing method, certificate record, inspection file, product category, requirement mapping, issue date, expiry date, and link to the responsible economic operator. The record should distinguish ordinary assessment evidence from notified-body evidence.
Conformity assessment body is an assessment-actor control: assessment outputs need to be linked to the body, activity, product, and requirement they support. That keeps external evidence from being confused with manufacturer responsibility or notified-body status.