For brand owners
Your brand makes you the manufacturer
Someone else builds the product, but it is sold under your name. That makes you the manufacturer, and the evidence has to sit with you.
Technical file in your possession
Made by Ruixin Appliances Co.
Technical file
Full copy, linked to CM-220
Drawn up by · Ruixin Appliances
Test report
EN 60335-1, covers your variant
Drawn up by · Test house, in the factory's name
Risk assessment
Reviewed and extended by you
Drawn up by · Ruixin Appliances
Material data
REACH, RoHS and POPs covered
Drawn up by · Component suppliers
EU declaration
Signed and retained
Drawn up by · Nordvik Home
Marking
Your name and contact address
Drawn up by · Nordvik Home
Someone else holds your evidence
The evidence may be issued in your supplier's name, but it has to be in your possession and cover the variant you sell.
Evidence for
Coffee grinder CM-220
Sold under Nordvik Home
Technical file
Access on request
Test report
Your variant not covered
Risk assessment
Relied on in your declaration
EU declaration
Signed by you
Market surveillance · reasoned request
Addressed to Nordvik Home AB
1 of 4 documents is held by you
Responsibility follows the trademark
Whoever sells under their own name or trademark is the manufacturer. The responsibility cannot be passed back to the supplier.
- 01
Establish the role
Putting your brand on a finished product makes you the manufacturer, even if you neither designed nor built it.
- 02
Establish the requirements
Determine which legal acts and harmonised standards apply to the product as you sell it.
- 03
Secure the evidence
Obtain the technical file, test reports and certificates from the supplier, and check that they cover your variant.
- 04
Mark and declare
Put your name and contact address on the product, sign the EU declaration and affix the CE marking.
- 05
Retain control
Track design changes, standard editions and supplier changes, and keep the evidence available for ten years.
A technical file you own
Verca builds the product's technical file in your structure. The evidence stays with you even when the factory changes.
- A technical file in your own structure, independent of the supplier
- Every supplier document connected to your variant and requirements
- Evidence complete and searchable for ten years after market entry
Your product record
Coffee grinder CM-220
Brand
Nordvik Home · 24 articles
Suppliers
2 factories for the same article
Technical file
Complete in your structure
Requirements
LVD, EMC and RoHS applicable
Test evidence
Linked to variant CM-220
EU declaration
Signed and retained
Built for own-brand products
Supplier evidence, technical file, requirements, chemical data and change monitoring, all held by you. Change factory and the evidence stays.
Supplier evidence
Request, collect and review documents from factories in a traceable flow.
ExploreYour own technical file
Build technical documentation in your own structure, with your templates and your order.
ExploreSeveral factories, one article
Keep the evidence apart when the same article is built by different suppliers.
ExploreVerca structures. You decide.
The platform gathers supplier evidence into your own technical file and makes it traceable. The judgment of whether the product meets the requirements stays with you.
Verca
Gathers the evidence with you
- Builds the technical file in your structure, not the supplier's
- Connects every supplier document to your variant and requirements
- Preserves evidence, reviews and decisions across supplier changes
Your team
Owns manufacturer responsibility
- Determines which rules are applicable to the product
- Judges whether the supplier's evidence is sufficient
- Signs the EU declaration and places the product on the market
Manufacturer duties apply to you
Read the legal overview of product definition, assessment, technical documentation, marking, and post-launch responsibility.
Start with one brand
Bring one product you sell under your own brand and the evidence your supplier has provided. We will show how the technical file can be built in your own structure.