You will all remember of course that the Italian made tumble dryer, made by Merloni under the Whirlpool group (which it owns) and marketed as Hotpoint/indesit/Creda/Proline tumble dryers was of course fully CE marked by its European manufacturer, and has caused many fires, To quote Which consumer org.
It's known that at least 750 fires have been reported since 2004 that involved affected Creda, Hotpoint, Indesit and Proline dryers.
We note that Governments all over Europe are taking firm action to enforce the obvious poor manufacturing which caused this CE marked product to kill people, oh……oh no, actually they are not.
As i have said many times before on this and other forums CE marking is worthless, and Europe and the UK is flooded with items both imported by import companies and personally on which no one will take responsibility for the CE marking. It is much easier to flip you import company into liquidation and start another one.The BSI kitemark which was attached to appliances used to be based on an actual lab test of that appliance, but all the BSI does today is sell very expensive "standard Specification" Documents. Standards have been allowed to fall dramatically in the pursuit of profit, and as usual it is the public who will suffer.
My Brother Manufactures products which are sold worldwide. Because they are non electrical/mechanical/moving, they do not come under CE regulation. Many of these products are purchased by NATO, and the militaries of various countries. He received an invitation to quote for supply of some military grade equipment with a CE mark. He explained to the people asking for the quote that this type of product could not be CE marked, as it was not covered by CE legislation. Nevertheless, a supplier was found who was willing to stamp CE on the products, and he got the contract. All the equipment supplied failed its initial testing, and it was later found that the European manufacturer flipped the order to China, even though the spec demanded European manufacture,and the whole lot will have to be manufactured again, presumably by another contractor, so it is all going back to the tendering process again, but hey, it's only taxpayers money!