A manufacturer may appoint an authorised representative by written mandate. The mandate cannot transfer two things: the paragraph 1 duty to design and manufacture to the applicable requirements, and the drawing up of the technical documentation. Those stay with the manufacturer. The mandate must allow the representative to do at least three things. Keep the EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation available to market surveillance authorities for five years. Provide an authority, on a reasoned request, with the information and documentation needed to show conformity. Cooperate with authorities on action taken to remove non-compliance for products within the mandate. The article does not make an appointment compulsory. It sets what the role must contain when it is used, which matters for a non-Union manufacturer selling into the Union through a local entity.
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