Editing CE marking (section)

==Countries requiring CE marking==
CE marking is mandatory for certain product groups intended for sale within the European Union, the [[European Free Trade Association]] (EFTA), and Turkey.  As Northern Ireland (a region of the UK) remains aligned to the [[European Single Market]] under the [[Northern Ireland Protocol]], [[File:Conformité Européenne (logo).svg|16px|alt=CЄ|link=|class=noviewer skin-invert-image]] marking [[UKCA#Northern Ireland|remains mandatory]] for products placed on the market there, and the British [[UKCA mark]] is not required.<ref name="UKCA">{{cite web |date=14 November 2022 |title=Businesses to be given UK product marking flexibility|publisher=Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Government of the United Kingdom, and [[Grant Shapps]] MP|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/businesses-to-be-given-uk-product-marking-flexibility }}</ref> 

[[File:Conformité Européenne (logo).svg|16px|alt=CЄ|link=|class=noviewer skin-invert-image]] marking was not required by countries of the [[Central European Free Trade Agreement]] (CEFTA), but CEFTA members Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro had applied for membership of the European Union, and were adopting many of its standards within their legislation, as had most Central European former member countries of CEFTA that joined the EU, before joining.

{{As of|2019}}, the United Kingdom  government "intends to extend recognition of the [[File:Conformité Européenne (logo).svg|16px|alt=CЄ|link=|class=noviewer skin-invert-image]] marking for placing most goods on the market in Great Britain, indefinitely, beyond December 2024", with "different rules for medical devices, construction products, cableways, transportable pressure equipment, unmanned aircraft systems, rail products, marine equipment and ecodesign".<ref name="UK Government-2023">{{cite web |title=CE marking guidance| website=UK Government |date=1 August 2023 |url=https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ce-marking |quote=Page will be updated to reflect the changes in due course.}}</ref><ref name="Partridge-2023">{{Cite news |last=Partridge |first=Joanna |date=2023-07-31 |title=UK to retain EU safety mark in latest Brexit climbdown |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/01/uk-eu-safety-mark-brexit-climbdown |access-date=2023-08-01 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>