| Below is some stuff written by our Quality Manager, a man with a tough job to to but also a man for whom there can never be too many aconyms or complicated directives... Therefor his explaination of CE is a bit 'dry'....but is wholly correct.... "The CE marking process is known as Type Examination & is an important supplement to our Quality Management System. In line with the requirements of European Union Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Directive 89/686/EEC all products designed & manufactured by Wild Country which are classified as PPE are independently Type Examined & tested to the relevant European Standard for Mountaineering & Industrial Fall Arrest. Only after meeting the requirements of the PPE Directive & the relevant European Standard are we allowed to mark 0120CE (the "CE" mark) on our products. BS EN ISO9001:2000 compliance & CE marking/product conformance are monitored by CEN (Committee for European Normalisation) Notified Body No. 0120 (SGS UK Ltd., Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, UK). It is a legal requirement that we maintain our Quality Management System as part of the PPE Directive "CE" marking process." However, it will have to do for the time being, but i will follow this up with some plain English to make it intelligible to you and I - I'm just trying to figure out the easiest way to say it... | 
