Article 19 of the Saudi Product Safety Law

This article deals with the case where the technical regulations require the involvement of an external body in conformity assessment.

• The condition: that the technical regulations relating to the product require a conformity assessment body to carry out a specified conformity assessment.
• Who is bound: the party responsible for placing the product on the market.
• What it is bound to do: to assign the task of carrying out the conformity assessment to one of the accepted bodies.

Under Article 1, accepted bodies are the conformity assessment bodies that the Authority has accepted in accordance with the Law and regulations. In this case it is therefore not permissible to settle for a body that the Authority has not accepted.

It follows from the text that the involvement of a conformity assessment body is not required in all cases, but when the technical regulation specific to the product requires it. This is consistent with Article 18 before it, which requires the manufacturer, the authorized representative and the importer to engage one of the accepted bodies "if the involvement of a conformity assessment body in the conformity assessment procedure is required".

Article 20 follows, which permits the competent bodies themselves to use conformity assessment bodies accepted by the Authority to carry out conformity assessment for a specified product in accordance with the Law and regulations.