Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 · Chapter
Article 53 — Access to data and documentation
Access to data and documentation: the evidence lever in surveillance investigations.
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Where necessary to assess the conformity of products with digital elements and the processes put in place by their manufacturers with the essential cybersecurity requirements set out in Annex I, the market surveillance authorities shall, upon a reasoned request, be granted access to the data, in a language easily understood by them, required to assess the design, development, production and vulnerability handling of such products, including related internal documentation of the relevant economic operator.
sha256:27b7c6c64c773001… · CELEX 32024R2847What this article does
Article 53 arms the surveillance process with its evidence lever: where needed to assess conformity, market surveillance authorities are given access, on reasoned request, to the data needed to assess the design, development, production and vulnerability handling of products, in a language easily understood by them — including related internal documentation of the relevant economic operator.
The operational meaning
Investigations under this chapter can turn on documents as much as on products. The technical documentation, drawn up before placing on the market and kept for at least ten years after placing on the market or the support period, whichever is longer F-016, is among the material such a request may reach.
Preparing for it
Article 53 sets no response period, but files that exist yet take weeks to assemble make a poor impression; keeping documentation retrievable, not just stored, is the practical lesson.
Verified facts this page relies on
- F-016 Technical documentation (Annex VII) is drawn up before placing on the market and kept, with the EU declaration of conformity, for at least ten years after placing on the market or the support period, whichever is longer. Art. 13(12)–(13), Art. 31
- F-047 Market surveillance authorities may require corrective action, restriction, withdrawal or recall for non-compliant products. Chapter V (Arts. 52–60)
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