Our Services

Single Market Ventures offers guidance on product approvals in the European Union (EU), and on related developments in standards and testing in Europe and the world. We offer a combination of subscription services and client-specific research

• The specific services: a combination of subscription services and client-specific projects.
  
• How those services fit into the broader frame of exporting, and the market needs that drive our work

You will find descriptions here of a range of news services (including the Europe-link Information Service on EU Product Approvals), analytical reports on EU programmes, subject-specific background briefings on multi-sectoral issues (such as labelling requirements) and on sectoral programmes, and client-specific research and advice into how regulations work.

Most manufactured products use standards or formal testing procedures to maintain levels of quality and performance which will meet regulatory requirements, user expectations, or environmental needs. Our services show how to obtain the fine details on EU systems in minimum time, and then to apply them efficiently. We also show how EU systems fit with global standards and testing agreements.

We operate essentially at the management level, although our services are also used as briefings for staff at a variety of levels. We focus on the impact of these programmes on trade and on operating businesses. We are not an engineering organisation, and do not undertake compliance verification or testing for individual products - that is the task of the thousands of testing bodies and independent scientists or engineers in the global testing and certification business, for many of whom we work.

The services of Single Market Ventures cover the whole of manufacturing industry: not only the best-known systems such as CE Marking (which cover less than 25% of trade in the EU), but all the systems that make one-stop approval possible in Europe, whether in machinery, electrical products, automotive components, chemicals, or any other manufacturing sector. They cover any technical requirements intended to demonstrate safety, health or other criteria of protection of consumers, children, or workers, or to protect the environment. And they cover multi-sectoral issues such as labelling or user documentation.

• The specific services: we offer a combination of subscription services and client-specific projects.
  
• How those services fit into the broader frame of exporting, and the market needs that drive our work




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