What is a CB Report and what is the CB Scheme?
In today’s market, manufacturers are selling their products internationally, which means gaining safety certification marks (if required) for each country they wish to sell in. Before the CB Scheme, the Certifying Agency in each country would conduct testing on the product. When many countries adopted the same IEC standards, this meant that each agency was performing identical evaluations and testing! With the CB Scheme, a manufacturer can take their product to their local Certifying Agency, obtain a CB Report (an evaluation of the product against the safety standard including test results) and take this report to other country agencies for their certification to avoid retesting. This can save manufacturers much time and reduces cost.
