Construction Products Regulation (CPR)The ETA route: A success story

Stimulation to develop into technological leadership

The European anchor manufacturers are worldwide market leaders with the most innovative and reliable products. Compared to other regions, the European anchor industry has the biggest variety of manufacturers including a lot of SMEs, which use ETAs for their innovative products in the same way as bigger companies. More than 7.700 ETAs based on 439 EADs have been issued already until 2019.

ETAs stand for quality worldwide

ETAs have an excellent reputation worldwide. Important Non-European countries (Australia, Singapore, India, China, Japan, Hongkong, Korea, etc.) recognise ETAs for construction products (e.g. fastening systems) as accepted documents when national documents are not available. Some countries take reference to European EADs in an explicit way. This enables European manufacturers to sell their product in a lot of third countries without additional testing or assessment.

Safety in construction

Unlike in other countries there has been no major failure of fastening applications in Europe, which proves the quality of the ETA product assessment procedures.

The EAD/ETA route is suitable for manufacturers of all sizes

The close cooperation between the manufacturer and a Technical Assessment Body and the confidentiality during the development of an EAD/ETA makes the ETA-route a perfect tool also for SMEs to demonstrate the reliability of their products, to simplify the distribution throughout the EU and worldwide and to maintain competitive advantages. After the publication of the new EADs, this knowledge is free to be used by any other manufacturers to apply for own ETAs.

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