So welcome to another content corner. Thank you very much for joining me. Thank you very much for all of the

feedback that we've received about the content comments about how useful they've been about the little snippets of

information just to help you in your expansion. My name's Andy. I'm from local e-commerce experts and we're here to

successfully expand you into the European markets with your e-commerce stores.

What we want to talk to you about today is the CE marking.

And what it actually is and what it actually means.

Well, in a nutshell, the CE marking is a certificate that makes sure that your product is safe to use in the EU.

Now it's actually the EEA, which is the European Economic Area,

which is slightly different to Europe, but nonetheless,

if you think about it as Europe as that, then that's good enough for me.

Now, there's a couple of different things.

So in 1985 is when it started.

The word CE actually is a French word

which basically means compliant in Europe. I thought my French is horrendous, so I'm not going to try and do it.

Now really what it was around was about making manufacturers and importers responsible for the products they were making, making sure they were compliant with the regulations

and really is to conform with health safety and environmental products that are sold in the

the European Economic Area. Now there's a few things in there so what is a health safety

environmental products?

Well, anything that could harm you,

anything that could cause harm to something,

is probably gonna need a CE marking.

So the sort of products that need a CE marking

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