CITRA offers manuals and handbooks to guide you through the CE marking process and Environmental regulations. Currently available are:

Directive Handbooks
Designed to act as a single point of reference for understanding and complying with a directive. A Directive Handbook contains the full text (official) of a directive, interpretive guidance documents, references to the mandated harmonized standards, and a complete list of available competent and notified bodies. A must have and easy to use reference. Directive Handbooks are available for each CE marking directive. The price per book is $150. To order, please fill out this order form and fax/mail it to us OR call in your credit card order.

CE 123... A guide to Understanding European Technical Regulations and CE Marking.

CE 123… provides a practical and systematic review of the CE marking system. This is a multi-layered training manual that begins each chapter with the fundamentals of each step of the CE Marking system. The second layer will provide you with in-depth information on each of the elements of the CE marking system to assist you with making your product conformity decisions. The third layer of CE 123… provides you with detailed strategic considerations and examples of real scenarios regarding CE marking.

"CE 123… Manual" focuses on:

CE marking your goods for export to Europe in a rapid, cost-efficient manner.Our overview of the organization and functioning of the CE marking system is matched with a series of check-off lists covering what you will have to do to qualify your products for sale in European markets.

The best practices in complying with CE marking requirements, including advice on how best to select and work with outside groups such as notified bodies, surveillance authorities and authorized representatives. These different groups approach CE marking tasks in many different ways. CE 123… emphasizes how American manufacturers can best work with these groups.

Integrating your CE marking decisions into your overall strategic marketing plan for European exports. At many stages of the process, you will be asked to make judgments and choose among many alternatives about the design, manufacturing and marketing of your product. These CE marking decisions will have a significant impact on your European sales.

The European Communities’ regulation of other aspects of your marketing and distribution plans. Topics covered include product promotional materials, agent-principal relations, product packaging and packing requirements and bans on anti-competitive distribution agreements. Although most of these requirements are outside of the CE marking system directly, CE 123… provides you with the information needed to market and ship in good conscience to European countries.

Throughout this manual, the term “manufacturer” will refer to a company that has the responsibility for CE marking a product, regardless of whether they are the actual manufacturer, distributor or some other entity that places a product on the market, or into service in the European Union.

To order, please fill out this order form and fax/mail it to us OR call in your credit card order.