Recreational Craft Directive

Modules

Module A: self-certification. The manufacturer compiles technical documentation detailing how the product complies with the Directive requirements before drawing up a Declaration of Conformity and CE marking the product.

Module Aa: the same as module A but with supplementary requirements, which must involve a notified body.

• Design and construction: tests, calculations or control procedures must be carried out by manufacturers under the responsibility of a notified body to demonstrate compliance with the essential requirements relating to stability and buoyancy.
• Noise emissions: defined sound emission tests must be carried out by manufacturers under the responsibility of a notified body. Recreational craft fitted with inboard or stern-drive engines without integral exhaust and personal watercraft must be tested by the craft manufacturers; outboard engines and stern-drive engines with integral exhaust must be tested by the engine manufacturers.

Module B involves an EC Type Examination by a notified body to verify that the essential requirements of the Directive have been addressed for a sample product.

Module C requires verification from the manufacturer that they have taken all necessary measures to ensure that, following EC Type Examination, all subsequent products 'conform to type'.

Modules B + D involve an EC Type Examination by a notified body and assessment of the manufacturer's quality system for production and final product inspection and testing by a notified body. This is to ensure that the quality system used adequately provides for ongoing conformity of the product. The notified body also carries out periodic surveillance of the manufacturer's quality system to ensure that its obligations are being fulfilled.

Modules B + E involve an EC Type Examination by a notified body and assessment of the manufacturer's quality system for product examinations and testing after manufacture by a notified body. This is to ensure that the quality system used adequately provides for ongoing conformity of the product. The notified body also carries out periodic surveillance of the manufacturer's quality system to ensure that its obligations are being fulfilled.

Modules B + F involve an EC Type Examination by a notified body and, either verification by examination and testing of every product that they conform to the 'type' which was type examined, or by statistical verification of homogenous lots that they conform to the 'type'. Either method must be verified by a certificate of conformity from a notified body.

Module G involves a notified body examining the individual product and witnessing appropriate tests to verify that the individual product conforms to the Directive's requirements.

Module H involves assessment of the manufacturer's quality system for design, production, final product inspection and testing and ongoing periodic auditing of the quality system by a notified body.

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