The paperwork travels with the pallet.
When you resell or install equipment, the certification file matters as much as the machine. A customs officer, an inspector or your own customer can ask for it at any point, and the answer needs to already be in the box. Here is exactly what ships with a wholesale consignment and where the responsibility sits once it leaves us.
CE Declaration of Conformity
The manufacturer's signed declaration that the machine meets the applicable EU directives. This is the document an inspector asks for first, and the one your customer will want on file.
EUR.1 preferential origin certificate
Where the destination has a trade agreement with the EU, this is what lets your customs entry claim the preferential duty rate rather than the standard one. It is worth real money on a container.
Country of origin certificate
States where the goods were actually manufactured. Required by most customs regimes and by a good number of tender processes.
Commercial invoice and packing list
The commercial values and the physical contents, line by line, so a customs entry can be filed without coming back to us for clarification.
All four ship with every order as a matter of course. You do not need to request them, and there is no charge for them.
What the marks actually mean
| CE | A manufacturer's declaration that the product conforms to the relevant EU directives. It is not a quality award and it is not issued by a third party — the manufacturer takes the responsibility, which is why the declaration naming them matters. |
| UKCA | The equivalent marking for Great Britain since the UK left the EU regime. Where a line carries it, that is stated on the product. |
| NSF / ETL / UL | North American certification schemes. These are product-specific rather than universal: some manufacturers we carry certify a line for North America and some do not. Ask before committing to a consignment bound for that market. |
| ISO 9001 / 14001 / 22000 | Management-system certifications held by a manufacturer rather than attached to a machine. Useful as a signal about how a factory runs; not a substitute for product conformity. |
If a specific certificate is a condition of your purchase, say so on the order or ask us first. We would rather confirm it up front than have a pallet arrive without the one document your customer needed.
Where the responsibility sits
Being straight about this saves arguments later. We supply the manufacturer's conformity documentation for the goods as sold. What we cannot do is certify how equipment behaves once it is installed, modified or combined with something else.
So: installation to local electrical, gas and water regulation is the installer's responsibility in the destination market, and any modification to a machine transfers conformity responsibility to whoever made the change. Markets outside the EU and UK may require their own approvals, and those are worth checking before the goods ship rather than after.
Packaged goods are a different regime
Food and drink lines carry food-safety documentation rather than machinery conformity: specifications, shelf life, allergen and ingredient declarations, and lot traceability. Those are quoted and supplied per consignment, because what a destination requires varies more for food than it does for equipment.