Leisure Time Exports
Your watercraft export specialists
CE Marking:
Leisure Time Exports Now
offers expanded services which include CE Marking. Some of our listings
include free CE
Certification. See our listings
page for details.
CE marks are not common on
US boats sold prior to 1998 but are
gaining popularity every
day. Importers are
ultimatly responsible for CE Marking.
Below is an excript from
the CEproof website.
CE Proof provides CE marking services in the UK at resonable rates.
Leisure Time Exports will
make arrangments to CE Mark your boat as part pf our expanded services.
Contact us for
details.
CE Marking American Sports Boats (ASB)
American boats have always been cheaper in the US than
Europe but with the current low dollar, there have never been more boats
crossing the Atlantic. For the most part, the imports are used sports
boats.
Get Legal
Grey Imports are perfectly legal provided the official
inspections and the documentation are carried out correctly. This means
making sure your boat is certified for CE Marking as well as paying
VAT and Import Duty. It is widely known that you can ‘grey’
import a car for instance but before you can register it you have to
have various checks carried out. It is not that different for boats.
Remember that a grey import simply means it has not been routed through
an officially appointed dealer or distributor.
Why?
If a boat is not certified for CE Marking when it should be, it is no
longer a grey import, it is quite simply illegal. If you put an illegally
imported boat into service or on the market within the EU you are committing
a criminal offence with the maximum penalty being a £5000 fine
and / or 3 months in prison. In some countries you run the additional
risk that the boat will be impounded until CE Marking is carried out.
The Recreational Craft Directive (RCD) has been in operation
since the 16th June 1998, but on the 1st January 2006, amendments to
the Directive came into force. There are now specific rules about how
CE Marking is to be carried out on existing and second-hand imported
boats. Most significantly, there is now a need to obtain a report or
certificate from a verification organisation known as a Notified Body.
Additionally the boat must comply with new limits on noise levels and
engine emissions. The effect of these changes is already leading to
an increased level of surveillance from the industry itself and the
regulators. Remember, if you break the law, you could end up with a
criminal record. This is very different from paying a civic penalty
like a parking fine.
Regardless of the legal implications, it makes a great
deal of sense to have CE Marking, because without it, your asset is
seriously devalued. More and more people are finding out that they have
a boat that they cannot insure a boat or sell through a broker or dealer
when they try to trade up. Many unsuspecting private buyers have landed
themselves with a problem by accepting an illegal boat. Don’t
be one of these people.
|
