The VDE Institute's international approvals and certifications
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2025-02-05 Testing + Certification

Global Market Access

To successfully introduce your product in a foreign market, country-specific requirements must be considered, and they may differ from country to country. We offer you our expertise for your success in your target export country!
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Worldwide testing and certification at the VDE Institute

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Our committed employees not only have years of experience in product certification, but they also have the language skills needed to make communication with the target country as optimum as possible.

The VDE Institute has proprietary, accredited test laboratories worldwide along with partner laboratories for local testing and approval of your products. Generally speaking, the VDE test report makes additional tests unnecessary and allows for conversion into a national certificate. Time and cost advantages due to combined factory inspections by VDE inspectors offer you an additional advantage.

As an authorized IECEE member, the VDE offers you the full service spectrum in the CB process and additional European certification processes (HAR, ENEC, etc.).

Our international service offering

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  • Country-specific advising on mandatory certification and certification requirements
  • Researching worldwide market entry conditions for electrical products
  • Expertise and up-to-date information on target markets and possible changes in national provisions
  • Energy-efficiency certifications based on a VDE test report (e.g. for Saudi Arabia and Belarus)
  • Obtaining product approvals according to international certification processes and bilateral agreements (e.g. CCC, EAC, UL/CSA/MET/QPS)
  • Issuing and implementing CB certificates and CCA notices for obtaining national test marks (please contect customer service)
  • Certificate of conformity for CE symbol in Europe (please contact customer service)
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We can provide you with updates in case that market access requirements do change for countries in that you are going to sell or already selling your product. In case that you need support on the interpretation of the updates on market access requirements, our impact assessments can support the follow up steps. Our monitoring services help you to keep your product compliant and avoid disturbance of your business.

The VDE mWatch Monitoring Service is based on Alerts which you will receive via e-mail. Tailormade information to keep you informed on changes of market access requirements. The Alerts are based on a Notification Matrix created from: Product + Target Countries + Requirement Categories. In case that there should be changes for one requirement selected from the Requirement Categories you will receive a notification Alert by e-mail.


Obtain targeted compliance information with ease 

  • Receive email alerts when there is regulatory update related to products of interests
  • Improve products compliance management
  • Save time and manpower cost
  • Shorten time to market
  • Improve product safety and quality
  • Reduce risk of recalls

Additional international certifications

For a series of countries, there is often mandatory certification according to country-specific standards. Cooperation agreements ensure the recognition of the test results of the VDE and the award of conformity marks, which are a prerequisite for export business to these countries. In many other countries, a voluntary national certification mark may provide direct benefits for the import and marketing of the products in the target country, because there is an increased level of trust among customers of the product in the certification marks known to them.  In these cases, factory inspections will be performed by VDE inspectors on behalf of the respective certification body. Our knowledgeable country experts can provide more information on services and prices.

Worldwide certification for wireless products

Radio products are legally regulated products nearly all over the world. As such, certifications or registrations in many different countries in the world are a prerequisite for legally bringing products to market that use radio technology for communication.

In addition to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), such products need to comply with the applicable statutory requirements in the respective countries. In Europe, the RED sets the standard for this.

In many countries, products tested by the VDE according to RED can be accordingly certified using the existing test reports. Naturally, this also works with test reports from other third-party test laboratories, provided that they are accredited for it according to ISO 17025.
As such, local tests are only required for countries where the normative basis foundations differ from Europe or where the law requires testing to be performed in a laboratory that has been accredited by the responsible authorities in the target country.

Thanks to our international network, we are also your ideal partner for processing these country-specific, mandatory tests and the certifications based on them.
While doing so, we will take every opportunity to reduce costs in the interests of our customers.

Here you can find additional information about our EMC and radio Services.

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