If you are a manufacturer it is essential that you know what a Declaration of Performance is. What is even more important is that you need to know what are the European trade regulations and how your Declaration of Performance is performing according to them. For more information: visit http://dopcreator.com/

1. 5 REASONS YOU SHOULD KNOW
What is a Declaration of Performance?

2. CONTENT
INTRODUCTION: HEADS UP!
IT IS THE LAW
4. IMPORTERS/DISTRIBUTORS
1. EVOLUTION
2. LANGUAGES
TERMINOLOGY
TRANSLATIONS
COMPLIANCE
3. MISSING INFORMATION
5. AVAILABLE ONLINE
4. LET’S RECAP
IMPORTERS
CONTENT

3. What is a Declaration of Performance?
The European Union is constantly changing and so are the
requirements for all manufacturers who are willing to sell inside the
free trade area. The Construction Products Regulation (CPR) came
fully into effect on 1st of July 2013 and henceforth added another
very important document to produce – the Declaration of
Performance –, or how most people familiar with it call it – the DoP.
The Declaration of Performance affects all manufacturers whose
product portfolio includes products covered by a Harmonised
European Standard (hEN) or a European Technical Assessment (ETA).
With over 1000 product types falling into this category, this rule
applies to the vast majority of manufacturers of construction
products who are selling in the EU.*
HEADS UP!
* To see a full list of the construction product
categories covered by the harmonised standards CLICK HERE

4. IT IS THE LAW
It is important to mention here that the legislative bodies have
specifically defined severe punishments for those that dare cut corners
on the DoP submission. For non-compliance with the CPR, according to
the European law, the penalties vary from fines, suspension and
prohibition notices and go all the way to prison sentences for some
particularly big violations.
With this in mind it goes without saying that the drawing of your
Declarations of Performance is some serious business. If you have been
unaware of this obligation, we strongly suggest you to act NOW. If you,
however, have been responsible enough to make your own DoPs, here
are some major concerns to keep an eye out for…
IT IS THE LAW

5. 1. EVOLUTION
Even if you did your Declarations of Performance, you still have the
legal duty to keep track of all changes in the CPR and reflect them
accordingly in your Declarations of Performance. The standards are a
subject of revision by the European Commission on a regular basis
and you are obliged to monitor for any amendments that concern
your products’ documentation.
We designed DoPcreator with this in mind. When using the system,
you will immediately be notified of any changes in the CPR or the
harmonised European standards, allowing you to edit your
Declarations of Performance on the spot, hassle-free and simple.
You can then distribute the documents to your customers through
the system’s built in functionality. It is that easy!
The Construction Products Regulation and Harmonised
Standards are always evolving
1. EVOLUTION

6. 2. LANGUAGES
“The Declaration of Performance shall be supplied in the language or the
languages required by the Member State where the product is made
available.”
According to Article 7 of the CPR, you are held fully responsible for accurately
translating your Declaration of Performance to each country’s respective
language, prior to placing your products on the market.
When it comes to translations of Declarations of Performance, it is all about
terminology and this is exactly where many companies fail.
Terminology & Translations & Compliance
2. LANGUAGES

7. TERMINOLOGY
The Construction Products Regulation aims at harmonising the
regulatory terminology, attempting to improve the
communication between economic actors. They are supposed to
establish and maintain the so called “common European
technical language”- a set of terms built on the basis of the
terms used in the European product standards.
This means that the EU expects you to translate your
Declarations of Performance in complete accordance with the
above mentioned technical terminology.
When it comes to translating the DoP terminology, you have to
consider that many of the conventional translation agencies
produce translations of a much lower quality.
2. LANGUAGES : Terminology

8. TRANSLATIONS
However, you as a customer are often unable to check and quality assure the
translated material. Being a native speaker and having an engineering degree
are not the only applicable criteria to the translators that work on your DoPs.
It’s rather essential that they are experienced in translating European
standards terminology. Translating a term means knowing the context of its
use within several standards in order to choose the correct translation.
We have developed DoPcreator to provide the most cost-efficient DoP
translating service, while saving our clients a great deal of time and effort in
hassling with translation agencies that provide absolutely no guarantees of
their works’ compliance with the EU technical requirements.
2. LANGUAGES : Translations

9. COMPLIANCE
Not keeping track of the correct terminology is in fact a violation
of the Construction Products Regulation and can be subject to
sanctions and various penalties.
Considering this, we have designed DoPcreator to translate
Declarations of Performance instantly and with 100% accuracy.
Behind DoPcreator is the heavy work of numerous linguists and
technical experts that made this functionality possible. All
translations are in full compliance with the EU requirements and
the terminology is a product of a continuous research and long
quality assurance procedures.
2. LANGUAGES : Compliance

10. 3. MISSING INFORMATION
As we already mentioned, you carry full legal responsibility for what IS or
what IS NOT in your Declaration of Performance. As everything else in the
world, all DoPs have also not been created equal. This means that you should
thoroughly read the technical standards to make sure you declare each of the
required performance values. The structure of the DoP should be in full
accordance with the model set out in Annex III of the CPR, or more
specifically – in the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 574/2014.
Luckily, our technical specification experts have done this for you. The
DoPcreator fully covers a wide array of products, carefully guiding you
through the process, reminding you of missing fields and minimizing any
negative consequences associated with misinterpretation, lack of technical
knowledge and other common errors.
3. MISSING INFORMATION

11. 4. DISTRIBUTORS/IMPORTERS
The CPR explicitly determines the legal responsibilities that
distributors and importers are a subject to. The Construction
Products Regulation gives detailed information about the legal
responsibility in the various stages of the supply chain in its
Article 13.
Issuing the Declaration of Performance is just one part of your
duties. You are required to ensure that the document is
delivered to your distributors, who will then send it to various
clients who are the end users of your products.
4. DISTRIBUTORS/IMPORTERS

12. IMPORTERS
Same goes for the importers who are held responsible for the products
compliance with the CPR requirements and that all other required
accompanying documentation is present and has correct content.
The importer must also indicate their name or trademark and address on the
product’s packaging and in the Declaration of Performance. In addition, if
sample testing of the construction product is required, the importer has the
responsibility to carry it out. Such test may be needed in order to check the
accuracy of the stated information in the Declaration of Performance.
IMPORTERS

13. 5. AVAILABLE ONLINE
Why make Declarations of Performance if no one will ever read
them? Well, not quite… The Construction Products Regulation
specifically requires you to have your DoPs published and
accessible to everyone who may need seeing it. Make sure you
have your documents uploaded and accessible 24/7 if you do
not want to risk unpleasant consequences on behalf of the EU
regulative bodies.
We at coBuilder have thought about that when designing the
DoPcreator. Every time when you create a DoP, you will be given
the option to distribute it as a PDF or to make it easily accessible
to anyone who might need it via a public download link.
Furthermore, it will never be lost or corrupted or in any change
altered.
AVAILABLE ONLINE

14. LET’S RECAP
The Construction Products Regulation has indeed brought us some
administrative inconveniences, which can in some cases make our lives more
difficult than we would want them to be. This doesn’t mean, however, that
we should waste significant resources to work this out in the best possible
manner. With the help of the DoPcreator platform, you save massive
amounts of time, effort and money while at the same time ensuring a top
level quality of your CPR documentation.
LET’S RECAP

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Adrian Tomov
International Sales Manager, coBuilder International
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