{ "$schema": "https://www.conphora.com/schemas/regulation-page.json", "code": "ExplD", "locale": "en", "url": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/expld/", "json": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/expld.json", "summaryPdf": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/expld/summary.pdf", "dateModified": "2026-09-12", "regulation": { "code": "ExplD", "name": "Directive 2014/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market and supervision of explosives for civil uses (recast)", "shortName": "Civil Explosives Directive", "reference": "Directive 2014/28/EU", "celex": "32014L0028", "eurlex": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028", "actType": "Directive", "category": "CE / Product Safety", "inForce": "2014-04-18", "appliesFrom": "2016-04-20", "changing": false, "video": "regulation-expld" }, "answer": "The Civil Explosives Directive requires explosives for civil uses to meet the essential safety requirements of Annex II, notified-body assessment, CE marking and a unique identification, while manufacturers, importers, distributors and every operator handling explosives must hold a licence or authorisation. It has applied since 20 April 2016, replacing Directive 93/15/EEC, and is unamended.", "description": "ExplD guide: the Civil Explosives Directive, which UN Class 1 explosives it covers, the essential safety requirements, notified-body conformity assessment and CE marking, the unique identification and transfer approvals, key dates and how to comply.", "enforcedBy": "National market surveillance authorities enforce the national laws transposing the directive with the powers of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (the directive still cites Articles 16 to 29 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008, read as Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 since 16 July 2021), and the competent authorities named for transfers, licences and seizures apply the security chapter; in Denmark the directive is implemented by Justitsministeriet's executive order nr. 1251 of 29 October 2025 on explosives under the weapons and explosives act, permits to trade, store, transfer, acquire and use explosives are issued by the police (politidirektøren i Midt- og Vestjyllands Politi), which the order makes the supervisory authority for the permits it provides for (§ 13(4)), and Sikkerhedsstyrelsen, since January 2026 the Markedsovervågning department of Erhvervsstyrelsen, has controlled explosives for civil uses on behalf of Justitsministeriet since 1 August 2018. The toolkit is corrective action within a set period, prohibition or restriction of the making available, withdrawal or recall, orders to end formal non-compliance such as missing CE marking, notified-body number, declaration or identification, seizure of explosives that will be illicitly acquired, used or dealt in, and national penalties that must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and may include criminal penalties for serious infringements.", "keyDates": [ { "date": "2014-02-26", "label": "Directive 2014/28/EU adopted by the European Parliament and the Council as a recast of Directive 93/15/EEC aligned with the New Legislative Framework", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · title and signature block after Art. 55" }, { "date": "2014-04-18", "label": "Entry into force, the twentieth day after publication in OJ L 96 of 29 March 2014; the delegation of power to update Annex I runs from this date", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 54 and Art. 47(2)" }, { "date": "2015-04-05", "label": "The data-collection and record-keeping duties of the unique identification and traceability system of Directive 2008/43/EC (Article 3(6) and Articles 13 and 14) apply; the marking duties had applied since 5 April 2013", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 15(1)" }, { "date": "2016-04-19", "label": "Deadline for Member States to adopt and publish the laws transposing the operative provisions listed in Article 52(1), including Articles 3 to 10, Articles 15 and 16, Articles 21 to 27, Articles 29 to 45, Articles 50 and 51 and Annexes III and IV", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 52(1)" }, { "date": "2016-04-20", "label": "National measures apply; Article 1, points 1, 3 to 6 and 14 of Article 2, Articles 11, 12 and 13, Article 14(2), Articles 17 to 19, the Module D, E, F and G references in Article 20, Article 28(5), (8) and (9), Articles 46 to 49 and Annexes I, II, V and VI apply directly; Directive 93/15/EEC and Directive 2004/57/EC repealed; explosives conforming to Directive 93/15/EEC and placed on the market before this date may still be made available and certificates issued under it stay valid", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 51, Art. 52(1), Art. 53 and Art. 54" }, { "date": "2021-07-16", "label": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 applies: it deletes Chapter III, Articles 15 to 29, of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008, of which Article 41 of the directive applies Articles 16 to 29 to explosives, and it lists Directive 2014/28/EU as point 47 of its Annex I", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 41; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 39, point (4), Art. 44 and Annex I, point 47" } ], "scope": { "appliesTo": [ "Explosives for civil uses: the materials and articles considered to be explosives in the United Nations recommendations on the transport of dangerous goods and falling within Class 1 of those recommendations", "Blasting explosives, detonating cords, safety fuses, other fuses and shock tubes, detonators and relays, and propellants and rocket propellants, the four groups given special requirements in Annex II", "Explosives made available on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge, and explosives a manufacturer uses for his own purposes", "Explosives transferred within the Union, meaning any physical movement except movements within one and the same site, which need the approval of the competent authority of the Member State of the consignee", "The economic operators: manufacturers, authorised representatives, importers, distributors and any natural or legal person who engages in the storage, use, transfer, import, export or trade of explosives" ], "derived": [ "Ammunition is outside the directive except for the transfer procedure, the security derogations and the information-exchange networks of Articles 12 to 14 (Art. 1(2)(c))", "Explosives that conform to harmonised standards, or parts of them, whose references are published in the Official Journal are presumed to conform to the Annex II essential safety requirements those standards cover (Art. 19)", "An importer or distributor that places an explosive on the market under its own name or trade mark, or modifies an explosive in a way that may affect compliance, is treated as the manufacturer (Art. 9)", "The unique identification and traceability system does not apply to explosives transported and delivered unpackaged or in pump trucks for direct unloading into the blast-hole, or to explosives manufactured at blasting sites and loaded immediately (in situ production); for those, and for explosives manufactured for own use, the CE marking goes on the accompanying documents (Art. 15(1) and Art. 23(5))", "Until the Commission adopts implementing acts under Article 15, Directive 2008/43/EC as amended by Directive 2012/4/EU continues to set the format of the unique identification and the record-keeping duties (Art. 51(3))", "Where an explosive is also subject to other Union acts requiring an EU declaration of conformity, a single declaration covering all of them is drawn up (Art. 21(3))", "Member States may designate substances not covered by the directive as explosives under national law (Art. 1(3))" ], "categories": [ { "id": "civil-explosives", "label": "Explosives for civil uses in UN Class 1 (blasting explosives, detonators, detonating cords, fuses, shock tubes, boosters, propellants for civil use)" }, { "id": "own-use-explosives", "label": "Explosives manufactured for own use, delivered unpackaged or in mobile units for direct unloading into the blast-hole, or produced in situ at the blasting site" }, { "id": "transferred-explosives", "label": "Explosives moved from one Member State to another or through a transit Member State" }, { "id": "ammunition", "label": "Ammunition (projectiles with or without propelling charges and blank ammunition for portable firearms, other guns and artillery)" }, { "id": "pyrotechnic-articles", "label": "Pyrotechnic articles (fireworks, theatrical and other pyrotechnic articles under Directive 2013/29/EU)" }, { "id": "military-police-explosives", "label": "Explosives, including ammunition, intended for use by the armed forces or the police under national law" }, { "id": "explosive-precursors", "label": "Chemical precursors that can be misused to make explosives (ammonium nitrate, hydrogen peroxide and similar substances)" } ], "roles": [ { "id": "manufacturer", "label": "Manufacturer (including brand owners and own-use manufacturers)", "definition": "Any natural or legal person who manufactures an explosive or has an explosive designed or manufactured, and markets that explosive under his name or trade mark or uses it for his own purposes; an importer or distributor that sells under its own name or trade mark or modifies an explosive in a way that may affect compliance is treated as the manufacturer.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 2, point (9), and Art. 9" }, { "id": "other", "label": "Authorised representative", "definition": "Any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks; the mandate cannot cover the duty to design and manufacture to the essential safety requirements or to draw up the technical documentation.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 2, point (10), and Art. 6(1)" }, { "id": "importer", "label": "Importer", "definition": "Any natural or legal person established within the Union who places an explosive from a third country on the Union market.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 2, point (11)" }, { "id": "distributor", "label": "Distributor (wholesaler or retailer of explosives)", "definition": "Any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes an explosive available on the market. The separately defined 'dealer' is a person whose occupation consists wholly or partly in the manufacture, trade, exchange, hiring out, repair or conversion of firearms and ammunition, and appears only in the ammunition transfer procedure.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 2, points (12) and (14), and Art. 12" }, { "id": "operator", "label": "Other economic operator (storage, use, transfer, import, export or trade of explosives)", "definition": "Besides the manufacturer, authorised representative, importer and distributor, the directive's economic operators include any natural or legal person who engages in the storage, use, transfer, import, export or trade of explosives, such as blasting contractors, quarries and mines; they must hold a licence or authorisation, obtain transfer approvals and take part in the unique identification and traceability system.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 2, point (13), Art. 11, Art. 15 and Art. 16" } ], "rules": [ { "categories": [ "military-police-explosives" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "The directive does not apply to explosives, including ammunition, intended for use, in accordance with national law, by the armed forces or the police.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 1(2)(a)" }, { "categories": [ "pyrotechnic-articles" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Pyrotechnic articles falling within the scope of Directive 2013/29/EU are excluded; Annex I lists the UN Class 1 articles considered to be pyrotechnic articles or ammunition, and the Commission may update it by delegated act to follow the UN recommendations.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 1(2)(b), Art. 46 and Annex I" }, { "categories": [ "ammunition" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Ammunition is excluded from the product requirements, save for the transfer procedure of Article 12, the security derogations of Article 13 and the information-exchange networks of Article 14; a transfer of ammunition to another Member State needs a licence from the Member State where the ammunition is located, or a three-year authorisation for transfers between dealers.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 1(2)(c), Art. 2, point (2), and Art. 12" }, { "categories": [ "explosive-precursors" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Precursor chemicals are not explosives within UN Class 1 and fall outside the directive; their sale to professional users and to licensed private individuals is governed by the separate EU regulation on the marketing and use of explosives precursors, which applies since 1 February 2021 and, in Denmark, is controlled by Erhvervsstyrelsen's market surveillance department.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 2, point (1); https://www.sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/udgangsstoffer-eksplosivstoffer/kontrol-udgangsstoffer-eksplosivstoffer" }, { "categories": [ "civil-explosives" ], "roles": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor", "other" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "Explosives for civil uses may be made available on the market only if they comply with the directive: designed and manufactured to the Annex II essential safety requirements, assessed under one of the Article 20 notified-body procedures, covered by an EU declaration of conformity, CE-marked and bearing a unique identification; the obligations fall on the manufacturer, authorised representative, importer and distributor and contain no company-size threshold.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 4, Art. 5 to Art. 8, Art. 15 and Art. 20" }, { "categories": [ "civil-explosives", "own-use-explosives", "transferred-explosives" ], "roles": [ "operator" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "Any person who stores, uses, transfers, imports, exports or trades explosives is an economic operator: it must hold a licence or authorisation, may transfer explosives only after the consignee has obtained the approval of the Member State of the consignee and any transit approval, and must keep the unique identification and traceability data for 10 years.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 2, point (13), Art. 11, Art. 15(3) and Art. 16" }, { "categories": [ "own-use-explosives" ], "roles": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor", "other" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "A manufacturer that uses explosives for its own purposes must still design and manufacture them to Annex II, have the conformity assessment carried out and draw up the declaration; the unique identification system does not apply to explosives delivered unpackaged or in pump trucks for direct unloading into the blast-hole or produced in situ, and for own-use, MEMU-delivered and in situ explosives the CE marking is affixed to the accompanying documents rather than the product.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 2, point (9), Art. 5(1), Art. 15(1) and Art. 23(5)" }, { "categories": [ "transferred-explosives" ], "roles": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor", "other" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "Explosives may be transferred within the Union only after the consignee has obtained approval from the competent authority of its Member State, which verifies that the consignee is legally authorised to acquire explosives and holds the necessary licences; the operator responsible for the transfer notifies and obtains prior approval from each transit Member State, and the approval document accompanies the explosives to their destination.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 11(2), Art. 11(4) and Art. 11(8)" }, { "categories": [ "*" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "depends", "note": "Whether the directive applies turns on whether the article is an explosive in UN Class 1 rather than a pyrotechnic article, ammunition or a precursor chemical, whether it is intended for the armed forces or the police, whether it is moved between Member States, and which role the operator holds.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 1, Art. 2 and Annex I" } ] }, "obligations": { "manufacturer": [ { "text": "Design and manufacture the explosive, whether you place it on the market or use it for your own purposes, in accordance with the Annex II essential safety requirements: minimal risk to life, health, property and the environment under normal foreseeable conditions, the performance characteristics you specify, safe disposal, the tested properties listed in Annex II part II (composition, stability, sensitiveness to impact and friction, purity, water and temperature resistance, safety features against untimely initiation, instructions and markings) and the special requirements for blasting explosives, cords and fuses, detonators and propellants.", "id": "expld-mfr-design-manufacture-explosive", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(1) and Annex II" }, { "text": "Draw up the technical documentation, including an analysis and assessment of the risks, a general description, design and manufacturing drawings, the harmonised standards applied or the solutions adopted instead, design calculations and test reports, and have a notified body carry out EU-type examination (Module B) followed by Module C2, D, E or F, or conformity based on unit verification (Module G).", "id": "expld-mfr-draw-technical-documentation", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "technical-documentation", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(2), Art. 20 and Annex III, Module B, point 3" }, { "text": "Draw up the technical documentation, including an analysis and assessment of the risks, a general description, design and manufacturing drawings, the harmonised standards applied or the solutions adopted instead, design calculations and test reports.", "id": "expld-mfr-compile-technical-documentation", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "technical-documentation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(2) and Annex III, Module B, point 3" }, { "text": "Have a notified body carry out EU-type examination (Module B) followed by Module C2, D, E or F, or conformity based on unit verification (Module G).", "id": "expld-mfr-carry-out-conformity-assessment", "kind": "procedure", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(2) and Art. 20" }, { "text": "Draw up the EU declaration of conformity per Annex IV once the procedure has demonstrated compliance, keep it continuously updated and translated into the languages the Member State requires, combine it with the declarations other Union acts require into a single declaration, and affix the CE marking followed by the identification number of the notified body involved in the production control phase.", "id": "expld-mfr-draw-declaration-conformity", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "declaration-of-conformity", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(2), Art. 21, Art. 23(3) and Annex IV" }, { "text": "Draw up the EU declaration of conformity per Annex IV once the procedure has demonstrated compliance, keep it continuously updated and translated into the languages the Member State requires, and combine it with the declarations other Union acts require into a single declaration.", "id": "expld-mfr-draw-eu-declaration", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "declaration-of-conformity", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(2), Art. 21 and Annex IV" }, { "text": "Affix the CE marking to the explosive, followed by the identification number of the notified body involved in the production control phase.", "id": "expld-mfr-affix-ce-marking", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "ce-marking", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(2) and Art. 23(3)" }, { "text": "Keep the technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity, together with the EU-type examination certificate and its additions, at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market.", "id": "expld-mfr-keep-technical-documentation", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(3) and Annex III, Module B, point 9" }, { "text": "Keep series production in conformity, taking account of changes in design or characteristics and in the harmonised standards or technical specifications by reference to which conformity is declared, and inform the notified body that holds the type certificate of any modification to the approved type that may affect conformity or the certificate's validity.", "id": "expld-mfr-keep-series-production", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(4) and Annex III, Module B, point 7" }, { "text": "Keep series production in conformity, taking account of changes in design or characteristics and in the harmonised standards or technical specifications by reference to which conformity is declared.", "id": "expld-mfr-keep-series-conformity", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(4)" }, { "text": "Inform the notified body that holds the EU-type examination certificate of any modification to the approved type that may affect conformity with the essential safety requirements or the validity of the certificate.", "id": "expld-mfr-inform-notified-body-changes", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Annex III, Module B, point 7" }, { "text": "Mark each explosive you place on the market with a unique identification under the Article 15 system, which under Directive 2008/43/EC means a human-readable part (manufacturer name, a two-letter Member State code, a three-digit manufacturing-site code attributed by the national authority, and your product and logistical code) plus a barcode or matrix code, on the explosive and each smallest packaging unit; where the explosive is excluded from the system, mark it with a type, batch or serial number and your name, registered trade name or trade mark and a single postal contact address, or put that information on the packaging or an accompanying document.", "id": "expld-mfr-mark-explosive-place", "kind": "mark", "level": "unit", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(5) and Art. 15; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3, Art. 4 and Annex" }, { "text": "Mark each explosive you place on the market, and each smallest packaging unit, with a unique identification under the Article 15 system: a human-readable part (manufacturer name, a two-letter Member State code, a three-digit manufacturing-site code attributed by the national authority, and your product and logistical code) plus a barcode or matrix code.", "id": "expld-mfr-mark-unique-identification", "kind": "mark", "level": "unit", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(5) and Art. 15; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3, Art. 4 and Annex" }, { "text": "Where the explosive is excluded from the unique identification system, mark it with a type, batch or serial number and your name, registered trade name or trade mark and a single postal contact address, or put that information on the packaging or an accompanying document.", "id": "expld-mfr-mark-type-name-address", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "identification-and-address", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(5)(a) and (b)" }, { "text": "Supply instructions and safety information in a language easily understood by end-users as determined by the Member State, clear, understandable and intelligible, together with any labelling.", "id": "expld-mfr-supply-instructions-safety", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "instructions-and-safety-information", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(6)" }, { "text": "If you consider or have reason to believe that an explosive you placed on the market does not conform, immediately bring it into conformity, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States where you made it available; on reasoned request provide all conformity information and documentation in a language the authority understands and cooperate on risk-elimination measures.", "id": "expld-mfr-immediately-bring-conformity", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(7) and Art. 5(8)" }, { "text": "If you consider or have reason to believe that an explosive you placed on the market does not conform, immediately bring it into conformity, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States where you made it available.", "id": "expld-mfr-correct-withdraw-recall", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(7)" }, { "text": "On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the explosive, in a language that authority can easily understand, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks posed by explosives you placed on the market.", "id": "expld-mfr-provide-information-request", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(8)" } ], "other": [ { "text": "Act under a written mandate that at least lets you keep the EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation at the disposal of the national market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market.", "id": "expld-oth-act-written-mandate", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 6(2)(a)" }, { "text": "Act as authorised representative only under a written mandate from the manufacturer that sets out the tasks you perform.", "id": "expld-oth-hold-written-mandate", "kind": "evidence", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 6(1) and Art. 6(2)" }, { "text": "Keep the EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation at the disposal of the national market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market.", "id": "expld-oth-keep-documentation-10-years", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 6(2)(a)" }, { "text": "On reasoned request, provide the competent national authority with all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the explosive, and cooperate with the authorities on any action taken to eliminate the risks posed by the explosives covered by your mandate.", "id": "expld-oth-provide-competent-national", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 6(2)(b) and Art. 6(2)(c)" }, { "text": "Do not take over the manufacturer's duty to design and manufacture to the essential safety requirements or to draw up the technical documentation; those cannot form part of the mandate, although the mandate may let you lodge the EU-type examination application and keep the certificate and documentation on the manufacturer's behalf.", "id": "expld-oth-take-manufacturers-duty", "kind": "status", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 6(1) and Annex III, Module B, point 10" }, { "text": "For explosives outside the unique identification system, be able to identify to the market surveillance authorities the operators that supplied you and that you supplied for 10 years after the supply.", "id": "expld-oth-able-identify-market", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 10" } ], "importer": [ { "text": "Place only compliant explosives on the market, and before doing so ensure that the manufacturer has carried out the appropriate Article 20 conformity assessment procedure, drawn up the technical documentation, affixed the CE marking, supplied the required documents and applied the unique identification or the identification and address markings; hold back an explosive you have reason to believe does not meet Annex II and, where it presents a risk, inform the manufacturer and the market surveillance authorities.", "id": "expld-imp-place-compliant-explosives", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 7(1) and Art. 7(2)" }, { "text": "Indicate your name, registered trade name or registered trade mark and a postal contact address on the explosive or, where that is not possible, on its packaging or in an accompanying document, in a language easily understood by end-users and market surveillance authorities.", "id": "expld-imp-indicate-name-registered", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "identification-and-address", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 7(3)" }, { "text": "Ensure the explosive is accompanied by instructions and safety information in a language easily understood by end-users as determined by the Member State concerned.", "id": "expld-imp-ensure-explosive-accompanied", "kind": "verification", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "instructions-and-safety-information", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 7(4)" }, { "text": "Keep storage and transport conditions while the explosive is under your responsibility from jeopardising compliance with the Annex II essential safety requirements.", "id": "expld-imp-keep-storage-transport", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 7(5)" }, { "text": "If an explosive you placed on the market does not conform, immediately take corrective measures, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States concerned with details of the non-compliance and the corrective measures.", "id": "expld-imp-immediately-take-corrective", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 7(6)" }, { "text": "Keep a copy of the EU declaration of conformity at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market, ensure the technical documentation can be made available on request, provide conformity information on reasoned request in a language the authority understands and cooperate on risk-elimination measures.", "id": "expld-imp-keep-copy-declaration", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 7(7) and Art. 7(8)" }, { "text": "Keep a copy of the EU declaration of conformity at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market, and ensure the technical documentation can be made available to them on request.", "id": "expld-imp-keep-declaration-copy", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 7(7)" }, { "text": "On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the explosive, in a language that authority can easily understand, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks posed by explosives you placed on the market.", "id": "expld-imp-provide-information-request", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 7(8)" }, { "text": "Where the manufacturing site is outside the Union and the manufacturer is not established in the Union, contact a national authority of the Member State of import so that the site is attributed the three-digit code used in the unique identification; where the manufacturer is established in the Union, it is the manufacturer who must do so. If you place explosives on the market under your own name or trade mark, or modify an explosive already placed on the market in a way that may affect compliance, you carry the manufacturer's obligations under Article 5.", "id": "expld-imp-contact-national-authority", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 9; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3(5)" }, { "text": "Where the manufacturing site is outside the Union and the manufacturer is not established in the Union, contact a national authority of the Member State of import so that the site is attributed the three-digit code used in the unique identification.", "id": "expld-imp-request-site-code", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3(5)" }, { "text": "If you place explosives on the market under your own name or trade mark, or modify an explosive already placed on the market in a way that may affect compliance, you carry the manufacturer's obligations under Article 5.", "id": "expld-imp-become-manufacturer", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 9" } ], "distributor": [ { "text": "Act with due care and, before making an explosive available, verify that it bears the CE marking, is accompanied by the required documents and by instructions and safety information in a language easily understood by end-users in the Member State where it is sold, and that the manufacturer and the importer have applied the unique identification or the identification and address markings; hold back an explosive you have reason to believe does not meet Annex II and, where it presents a risk, inform the manufacturer or importer and the market surveillance authorities.", "id": "expld-dist-act-due-care", "kind": "verification", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 8(1) and Art. 8(2)" }, { "text": "Keep storage and transport conditions while the explosive is under your responsibility from jeopardising compliance with the Annex II essential safety requirements, and if you repackage explosives make sure the unique identification is affixed to the explosive and the smallest packaging unit.", "id": "expld-dist-keep-storage-transport", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 8(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3(6)" }, { "text": "While an explosive is under your responsibility, keep its storage and transport conditions from jeopardising its compliance with the Annex II essential safety requirements.", "id": "expld-dist-keep-storage-conditions", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 8(3)" }, { "text": "If you repackage explosives, make sure the unique identification is affixed to the explosive and to the smallest packaging unit.", "id": "expld-dist-mark-repackaged-explosives", "kind": "mark", "level": "unit", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3(6)" }, { "text": "If an explosive you made available does not conform, make sure corrective measures are taken to bring it into conformity, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States concerned.", "id": "expld-dist-make-sure-corrective", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 8(4)" }, { "text": "On reasoned request, provide the information and documentation demonstrating conformity and cooperate on risk-elimination measures; for explosives outside the unique identification system, identify your suppliers and customers for 10 years.", "id": "expld-dist-provide-information-documentation", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 8(5) and Art. 10" }, { "text": "On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the explosive, in a language that authority can easily understand, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks posed by explosives you made available.", "id": "expld-dist-provide-information-request", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 8(5)" }, { "text": "For explosives outside the unique identification system, be able to identify to the market surveillance authorities, for 10 years after the supply, every economic operator that supplied you and every economic operator you supplied.", "id": "expld-dist-identify-supply-chain", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 10" }, { "text": "If you sell under your own name or trade mark or modify an explosive in a way that may affect compliance, you take on the manufacturer's obligations under Article 5.", "id": "expld-dist-take-manufacturers-obligations", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 9" } ], "operator": [ { "text": "Hold a licence or authorisation entitling you to engage in the manufacture, storage, use, import, export, transfer or trade of explosives; employees of a licensed operator do not need their own, and a manufacturing licence is issued only after the Member State has checked that you can comply with the technical commitments you assume.", "id": "expld-op-hold-licence-authorisation", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 16 and Art. 17" }, { "text": "Transfer explosives only after the consignee has obtained approval from the competent authority of its Member State and, for movements through another Member State, after you have notified and obtained the prior approval of the transit Member State; carry the approval document with the explosives to their destination, produce it on request and keep a copy as consignee.", "id": "expld-op-transfer-explosives-consignee", "kind": "submission", "level": "lot", "timing": "per-lot", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 11(2), Art. 11(4) and Art. 11(8)" }, { "text": "Where a Member State requires special supervision, provide before the transfer the names and addresses of the operators, the number and quantity of explosives, their full description and identification including the UN number, the compliance information for explosives to be placed on the market, the means of transfer and itinerary, the expected dates and where necessary the points of entry and exit; where no special security requirements apply, the authority may instead grant a fixed-period approval.", "id": "expld-op-provide-transfer-names", "kind": "submission", "level": "lot", "timing": "per-lot", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 11(5) and Art. 11(6)" }, { "text": "Adhere to the uniform system for the unique identification and traceability of explosives: collect and store the data identifying each explosive, its location while in your possession and the identity of the operators, test and protect the data, keep it for 10 years after the transaction or, where the explosive was used or disposed of, 10 years after use or disposal even if you cease trading, and make it immediately available to the competent authorities.", "id": "expld-op-adhere-uniform-system", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 15(1) to Art. 15(3)" }, { "text": "Keep a record of all identifications of the explosives you hold with the type and the person to whose custody each was given, record the location of each explosive until it is transferred or used, name a person who can supply that information outside normal business hours, and forward on request all relevant transfer information to the authorities of the Member States of departure and transit.", "id": "expld-op-keep-record-identifications", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 11(7); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 13 and Art. 14" } ] }, "requirements": [ { "id": "expld-mfr-design-manufacture-explosive", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Design and manufacture the explosive, whether you place it on the market or use it for your own purposes, in accordance with the Annex II essential safety requirements: minimal risk to life, health, property and the environment under normal foreseeable conditions, the performance characteristics you specify, safe disposal, the tested properties listed in Annex II part II (composition, stability, sensitiveness to impact and friction, purity, water and temperature resistance, safety features against untimely initiation, instructions and markings) and the special requirements for blasting explosives, cords and fuses, detonators and propellants.", "article": "Art. 5(1) and Annex II", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-draw-technical-documentation", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "technical-documentation", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Draw up the technical documentation, including an analysis and assessment of the risks, a general description, design and manufacturing drawings, the harmonised standards applied or the solutions adopted instead, design calculations and test reports, and have a notified body carry out EU-type examination (Module B) followed by Module C2, D, E or F, or conformity based on unit verification (Module G).", "article": "Art. 5(2), Art. 20 and Annex III, Module B, point 3", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-compile-technical-documentation", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "technical-documentation", "text": "Draw up the technical documentation, including an analysis and assessment of the risks, a general description, design and manufacturing drawings, the harmonised standards applied or the solutions adopted instead, design calculations and test reports.", "article": "Art. 5(2) and Annex III, Module B, point 3", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-carry-out-conformity-assessment", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "procedure", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Have a notified body carry out EU-type examination (Module B) followed by Module C2, D, E or F, or conformity based on unit verification (Module G).", "article": "Art. 5(2) and Art. 20", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-draw-declaration-conformity", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "declaration-of-conformity", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Draw up the EU declaration of conformity per Annex IV once the procedure has demonstrated compliance, keep it continuously updated and translated into the languages the Member State requires, combine it with the declarations other Union acts require into a single declaration, and affix the CE marking followed by the identification number of the notified body involved in the production control phase.", "article": "Art. 5(2), Art. 21, Art. 23(3) and Annex IV", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-draw-eu-declaration", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "declaration-of-conformity", "text": "Draw up the EU declaration of conformity per Annex IV once the procedure has demonstrated compliance, keep it continuously updated and translated into the languages the Member State requires, and combine it with the declarations other Union acts require into a single declaration.", "article": "Art. 5(2), Art. 21 and Annex IV", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-affix-ce-marking", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "ce-marking", "text": "Affix the CE marking to the explosive, followed by the identification number of the notified body involved in the production control phase.", "article": "Art. 5(2) and Art. 23(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-keep-technical-documentation", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "text": "Keep the technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity, together with the EU-type examination certificate and its additions, at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market.", "article": "Art. 5(3) and Annex III, Module B, point 9", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-keep-series-production", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Keep series production in conformity, taking account of changes in design or characteristics and in the harmonised standards or technical specifications by reference to which conformity is declared, and inform the notified body that holds the type certificate of any modification to the approved type that may affect conformity or the certificate's validity.", "article": "Art. 5(4) and Annex III, Module B, point 7", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-keep-series-conformity", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Keep series production in conformity, taking account of changes in design or characteristics and in the harmonised standards or technical specifications by reference to which conformity is declared.", "article": "Art. 5(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-inform-notified-body-changes", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Inform the notified body that holds the EU-type examination certificate of any modification to the approved type that may affect conformity with the essential safety requirements or the validity of the certificate.", "article": "Annex III, Module B, point 7", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-mark-explosive-place", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "mark", "level": "unit", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Mark each explosive you place on the market with a unique identification under the Article 15 system, which under Directive 2008/43/EC means a human-readable part (manufacturer name, a two-letter Member State code, a three-digit manufacturing-site code attributed by the national authority, and your product and logistical code) plus a barcode or matrix code, on the explosive and each smallest packaging unit; where the explosive is excluded from the system, mark it with a type, batch or serial number and your name, registered trade name or trade mark and a single postal contact address, or put that information on the packaging or an accompanying document.", "article": "Art. 5(5) and Art. 15; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3, Art. 4 and Annex", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-mark-unique-identification", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "mark", "level": "unit", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Mark each explosive you place on the market, and each smallest packaging unit, with a unique identification under the Article 15 system: a human-readable part (manufacturer name, a two-letter Member State code, a three-digit manufacturing-site code attributed by the national authority, and your product and logistical code) plus a barcode or matrix code.", "article": "Art. 5(5) and Art. 15; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3, Art. 4 and Annex", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-mark-type-name-address", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "identification-and-address", "text": "Where the explosive is excluded from the unique identification system, mark it with a type, batch or serial number and your name, registered trade name or trade mark and a single postal contact address, or put that information on the packaging or an accompanying document.", "article": "Art. 5(5)(a) and (b)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-supply-instructions-safety", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "instructions-and-safety-information", "text": "Supply instructions and safety information in a language easily understood by end-users as determined by the Member State, clear, understandable and intelligible, together with any labelling.", "article": "Art. 5(6)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-immediately-bring-conformity", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "If you consider or have reason to believe that an explosive you placed on the market does not conform, immediately bring it into conformity, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States where you made it available; on reasoned request provide all conformity information and documentation in a language the authority understands and cooperate on risk-elimination measures.", "article": "Art. 5(7) and Art. 5(8)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-correct-withdraw-recall", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "If you consider or have reason to believe that an explosive you placed on the market does not conform, immediately bring it into conformity, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States where you made it available.", "article": "Art. 5(7)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-mfr-provide-information-request", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the explosive, in a language that authority can easily understand, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks posed by explosives you placed on the market.", "article": "Art. 5(8)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-oth-act-written-mandate", "role": "other", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Act under a written mandate that at least lets you keep the EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation at the disposal of the national market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market.", "article": "Art. 6(2)(a)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-oth-hold-written-mandate", "role": "other", "kind": "evidence", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Act as authorised representative only under a written mandate from the manufacturer that sets out the tasks you perform.", "article": "Art. 6(1) and Art. 6(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-oth-keep-documentation-10-years", "role": "other", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "text": "Keep the EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation at the disposal of the national market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market.", "article": "Art. 6(2)(a)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-oth-provide-competent-national", "role": "other", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "On reasoned request, provide the competent national authority with all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the explosive, and cooperate with the authorities on any action taken to eliminate the risks posed by the explosives covered by your mandate.", "article": "Art. 6(2)(b) and Art. 6(2)(c)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-oth-take-manufacturers-duty", "role": "other", "kind": "status", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Do not take over the manufacturer's duty to design and manufacture to the essential safety requirements or to draw up the technical documentation; those cannot form part of the mandate, although the mandate may let you lodge the EU-type examination application and keep the certificate and documentation on the manufacturer's behalf.", "article": "Art. 6(1) and Annex III, Module B, point 10", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-oth-able-identify-market", "role": "other", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "text": "For explosives outside the unique identification system, be able to identify to the market surveillance authorities the operators that supplied you and that you supplied for 10 years after the supply.", "article": "Art. 10", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-place-compliant-explosives", "role": "importer", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Place only compliant explosives on the market, and before doing so ensure that the manufacturer has carried out the appropriate Article 20 conformity assessment procedure, drawn up the technical documentation, affixed the CE marking, supplied the required documents and applied the unique identification or the identification and address markings; hold back an explosive you have reason to believe does not meet Annex II and, where it presents a risk, inform the manufacturer and the market surveillance authorities.", "article": "Art. 7(1) and Art. 7(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-indicate-name-registered", "role": "importer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "identification-and-address", "text": "Indicate your name, registered trade name or registered trade mark and a postal contact address on the explosive or, where that is not possible, on its packaging or in an accompanying document, in a language easily understood by end-users and market surveillance authorities.", "article": "Art. 7(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-ensure-explosive-accompanied", "role": "importer", "kind": "verification", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "instructions-and-safety-information", "text": "Ensure the explosive is accompanied by instructions and safety information in a language easily understood by end-users as determined by the Member State concerned.", "article": "Art. 7(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-keep-storage-transport", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Keep storage and transport conditions while the explosive is under your responsibility from jeopardising compliance with the Annex II essential safety requirements.", "article": "Art. 7(5)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-immediately-take-corrective", "role": "importer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "If an explosive you placed on the market does not conform, immediately take corrective measures, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States concerned with details of the non-compliance and the corrective measures.", "article": "Art. 7(6)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-keep-copy-declaration", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Keep a copy of the EU declaration of conformity at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market, ensure the technical documentation can be made available on request, provide conformity information on reasoned request in a language the authority understands and cooperate on risk-elimination measures.", "article": "Art. 7(7) and Art. 7(8)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-keep-declaration-copy", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "text": "Keep a copy of the EU declaration of conformity at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market, and ensure the technical documentation can be made available to them on request.", "article": "Art. 7(7)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-provide-information-request", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the explosive, in a language that authority can easily understand, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks posed by explosives you placed on the market.", "article": "Art. 7(8)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-contact-national-authority", "role": "importer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Where the manufacturing site is outside the Union and the manufacturer is not established in the Union, contact a national authority of the Member State of import so that the site is attributed the three-digit code used in the unique identification; where the manufacturer is established in the Union, it is the manufacturer who must do so. If you place explosives on the market under your own name or trade mark, or modify an explosive already placed on the market in a way that may affect compliance, you carry the manufacturer's obligations under Article 5.", "article": "Art. 9; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3(5)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-imp-request-site-code", "role": "importer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Where the manufacturing site is outside the Union and the manufacturer is not established in the Union, contact a national authority of the Member State of import so that the site is attributed the three-digit code used in the unique identification.", "article": "Art. 3(5)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314" }, { "id": "expld-imp-become-manufacturer", "role": "importer", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "If you place explosives on the market under your own name or trade mark, or modify an explosive already placed on the market in a way that may affect compliance, you carry the manufacturer's obligations under Article 5.", "article": "Art. 9", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-dist-act-due-care", "role": "distributor", "kind": "verification", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Act with due care and, before making an explosive available, verify that it bears the CE marking, is accompanied by the required documents and by instructions and safety information in a language easily understood by end-users in the Member State where it is sold, and that the manufacturer and the importer have applied the unique identification or the identification and address markings; hold back an explosive you have reason to believe does not meet Annex II and, where it presents a risk, inform the manufacturer or importer and the market surveillance authorities.", "article": "Art. 8(1) and Art. 8(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-dist-keep-storage-transport", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Keep storage and transport conditions while the explosive is under your responsibility from jeopardising compliance with the Annex II essential safety requirements, and if you repackage explosives make sure the unique identification is affixed to the explosive and the smallest packaging unit.", "article": "Art. 8(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 3(6)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-dist-keep-storage-conditions", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "While an explosive is under your responsibility, keep its storage and transport conditions from jeopardising its compliance with the Annex II essential safety requirements.", "article": "Art. 8(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-dist-mark-repackaged-explosives", "role": "distributor", "kind": "mark", "level": "unit", "timing": "on-event", "text": "If you repackage explosives, make sure the unique identification is affixed to the explosive and to the smallest packaging unit.", "article": "Art. 3(6)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314" }, { "id": "expld-dist-make-sure-corrective", "role": "distributor", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "If an explosive you made available does not conform, make sure corrective measures are taken to bring it into conformity, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States concerned.", "article": "Art. 8(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-dist-provide-information-documentation", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "On reasoned request, provide the information and documentation demonstrating conformity and cooperate on risk-elimination measures; for explosives outside the unique identification system, identify your suppliers and customers for 10 years.", "article": "Art. 8(5) and Art. 10", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-dist-provide-information-request", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the explosive, in a language that authority can easily understand, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks posed by explosives you made available.", "article": "Art. 8(5)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-dist-identify-supply-chain", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "text": "For explosives outside the unique identification system, be able to identify to the market surveillance authorities, for 10 years after the supply, every economic operator that supplied you and every economic operator you supplied.", "article": "Art. 10", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-dist-take-manufacturers-obligations", "role": "distributor", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "If you sell under your own name or trade mark or modify an explosive in a way that may affect compliance, you take on the manufacturer's obligations under Article 5.", "article": "Art. 9", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-op-hold-licence-authorisation", "role": "operator", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Hold a licence or authorisation entitling you to engage in the manufacture, storage, use, import, export, transfer or trade of explosives; employees of a licensed operator do not need their own, and a manufacturing licence is issued only after the Member State has checked that you can comply with the technical commitments you assume.", "article": "Art. 16 and Art. 17", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-op-transfer-explosives-consignee", "role": "operator", "kind": "submission", "level": "lot", "timing": "per-lot", "text": "Transfer explosives only after the consignee has obtained approval from the competent authority of its Member State and, for movements through another Member State, after you have notified and obtained the prior approval of the transit Member State; carry the approval document with the explosives to their destination, produce it on request and keep a copy as consignee.", "article": "Art. 11(2), Art. 11(4) and Art. 11(8)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-op-provide-transfer-names", "role": "operator", "kind": "submission", "level": "lot", "timing": "per-lot", "text": "Where a Member State requires special supervision, provide before the transfer the names and addresses of the operators, the number and quantity of explosives, their full description and identification including the UN number, the compliance information for explosives to be placed on the market, the means of transfer and itinerary, the expected dates and where necessary the points of entry and exit; where no special security requirements apply, the authority may instead grant a fixed-period approval.", "article": "Art. 11(5) and Art. 11(6)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-op-adhere-uniform-system", "role": "operator", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "text": "Adhere to the uniform system for the unique identification and traceability of explosives: collect and store the data identifying each explosive, its location while in your possession and the identity of the operators, test and protect the data, keep it for 10 years after the transaction or, where the explosive was used or disposed of, 10 years after use or disposal even if you cease trading, and make it immediately available to the competent authorities.", "article": "Art. 15(1) to Art. 15(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "id": "expld-op-keep-record-identifications", "role": "operator", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Keep a record of all identifications of the explosives you hold with the type and the person to whose custody each was given, record the location of each explosive until it is transferred or used, name a person who can supply that information outside normal business hours, and forward on request all relevant transfer information to the authorities of the Member States of departure and transit.", "article": "Art. 11(7); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 13 and Art. 14", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" } ], "requirementsHash": "215dd38ea80e7b76", "penalties": { "text": "Member States lay down the rules on penalties for infringements of their national transposing laws by economic operators and enforce them; the penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and may include criminal penalties for serious infringements. Market surveillance authorities evaluate explosives that present a risk to the health or safety of persons, property or the environment, require corrective action, withdrawal or recall within a reasonable period commensurate with the risk, inform the notified body, and if the operator fails to act prohibit or restrict the making available, withdraw or recall the explosive and notify the Commission and the other Member States; compliant explosives that still present a risk can be treated the same way, and the competent authorities may seize any explosive where there is sufficient evidence that it will be illicitly acquired, used or dealt in. Formal non-compliance, such as CE marking missing or wrongly affixed, the notified body's identification number missing, a missing or incorrect EU declaration of conformity, incomplete technical documentation or absent, false or incomplete identification and address information, must be ended and otherwise leads to restriction, prohibition, withdrawal or recall. In Denmark, executive order nr. 1251 of 29 October 2025 on explosives (Justitsministeriet, in force 1 November 2025) makes the directive and Directive 2008/43/EC apply in Denmark, limits permits to trade and market explosives to products meeting Articles 3 to 4, 5(1), 19 and 22 to 23 and Annexes II to IV of the directive and the 2008/43/EC marking rules, requires police permits to trade, store, transfer, acquire and use explosives, and punishes breaches of its sections 2 to 11 and of section 12(4), and breaches of the conditions attached to a permit, with a fine or imprisonment of up to 4 months, or up to 2 years under aggravating circumstances, with companies liable under chapter 5 of the criminal code. The order names only the police as supervisory authority for the permits it provides for (§ 13(4)), and the Danish product act (lov om produkter og markedsovervågning, consolidated as LBK nr. 22 of 8 January 2026) does not list Directive 2014/28/EU among the acts it covers, so the market surveillance of explosives for civil uses rests on the control authority's own published statement that it performs it on behalf of Justitsministeriet, not on a published delegating order. Sikkerhedsstyrelsen, since January 2026 the Markedsovervågning department of Erhvervsstyrelsen, controls explosives for civil uses on behalf of Justitsministeriet and can ask the police to investigate breaches.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 50, Art. 18, Art. 42, Art. 44 and Art. 45; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/1251 · § 12, stk. 4, § 13, stk. 4, og § 15; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 2, stk. 1, og § 9, stk. 1; https://www.sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/eksplosivstoffer-civil-brug/eksplosivstoffer-civil-brug-vi-foerer-kontrol; https://www.sik.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-del-erhvervsstyrelsen" }, "checklist": [ "Confirm the article is an explosive in UN Class 1 for civil use and not a pyrotechnic article under Directive 2013/29/EU, ammunition, an explosive for the armed forces or the police, or a precursor chemical (Article 1, Article 2 and Annex I).", "Decide your role for each product, remembering that selling under your own name or trade mark, modifying an explosive or using explosives for your own purposes makes you the manufacturer (Article 2, point (9), and Article 9).", "Obtain the licence or authorisation for manufacturing, storing, using, importing, exporting, transferring or trading explosives before you start; in Denmark the permits come from the police under executive order nr. 1251 of 2025 (Article 16 and Article 17).", "Identify the harmonised standards for explosives published in the Official Journal and test the product against the Annex II essential safety requirements, including the group requirements for blasting explosives, cords and fuses, detonators or propellants (Article 19 and Annex II).", "Compile the technical documentation with the risk analysis, drawings, standards applied, calculations and test reports, and apply to a single notified body for EU-type examination, then choose Module C2, D, E or F for production, or use unit verification (Article 20 and Annex III).", "Draw up the Annex IV EU declaration of conformity, as a single declaration where other Union acts also apply, and keep it and the documentation for 10 years (Article 5(3) and Article 21).", "Affix the CE marking with the notified body's identification number to the explosive, or to the packaging and documents where the explosive does not allow it, and to the accompanying documents for own-use, MEMU-delivered and in situ explosives (Article 23).", "Apply the unique identification (site code, product code, barcode or matrix code) to each explosive and smallest packaging unit, or the type or serial number and your name and address where the system does not apply, and add instructions and safety information in the required language (Article 5(5), Article 5(6), Article 7(3) and Directive 2008/43/EC).", "Set up the traceability records that keep each explosive's identification, custody and location for 10 years, the corrective-action and notification procedure, and the transfer approvals and accompanying document for every movement between Member States (Article 11, Article 15 and Article 5(7))." ], "faq": [ { "q": "When did the Civil Explosives Directive 2014/28/EU start to apply?", "a": "The recast directive was adopted on 26 February 2014, published in the Official Journal on 29 March 2014 and entered into force on 18 April 2014. Member States had to transpose the operative provisions by 19 April 2016 and apply them from 20 April 2016, when Directive 93/15/EEC and Directive 2004/57/EC were repealed; the security chapter, the presumption of conformity, the Module D to G references and the annexes apply directly from the same date. Explosives conforming to Directive 93/15/EEC and placed on the market before 20 April 2016 may still be made available, and certificates issued under it remain valid.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 51, Art. 52, Art. 53 and Art. 54" }, { "q": "Which products count as explosives for civil uses?", "a": "The materials and articles considered to be explosives in the United Nations recommendations on the transport of dangerous goods and falling within Class 1 of those recommendations, such as blasting explosives, detonating cords, safety fuses, shock tubes, detonators, relays, boosters and propellants for civil use. Excluded are explosives, including ammunition, intended for the armed forces or the police, pyrotechnic articles under Directive 2013/29/EU and ammunition, except that the transfer, derogation and information-exchange rules of Articles 12 to 14 also cover ammunition; Annex I lists the UN Class 1 entries treated as pyrotechnic articles or ammunition.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 1, Art. 2, points (1) and (2), and Annex I" }, { "q": "Do I need a notified body for civil explosives?", "a": "Yes. The manufacturer must follow one of the Annex III procedures: EU-type examination (Module B) by a notified body followed, at the manufacturer's choice, by conformity to type based on internal production control plus supervised product checks at random intervals (Module C2), quality assurance of the production process (Module D), product quality assurance (Module E) or product verification (Module F); or conformity based on unit verification (Module G). There is no self-declaration route, and the CE marking is followed by the identification number of the notified body involved in the production control phase.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 20, Art. 23(3) and Annex III" }, { "q": "What is the unique identification of explosives and who must apply it?", "a": "Manufacturers must ensure that explosives they place on the market bear a unique identification under the uniform identification and traceability system of Article 15, and importers and distributors must check it is there. Until the Commission replaces it by implementing acts, the system is the one of Directive 2008/43/EC as amended by Directive 2012/4/EU: undertakings that manufacture or import explosives or assemble detonators mark each explosive and each smallest packaging unit with the manufacturer's name, a two-letter Member State code, a three-digit manufacturing-site code attributed by the national authority and the manufacturer's product and logistical code, plus a barcode or matrix code. The system does not apply to explosives delivered unpackaged or in pump trucks for direct unloading into the blast-hole, explosives produced in situ, ammunition, fuses, safety fuses and cap-type primers.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(5), Art. 15 and Art. 51(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314 · Art. 2, Art. 3 and Annex" }, { "q": "How does the approval of transfers of explosives between Member States work?", "a": "The consignee obtains approval from the competent authority of its own Member State, which verifies that the consignee is legally authorised to acquire explosives and holds the necessary licences or authorisations; the operator responsible for the transfer notifies each transit Member State and obtains its prior approval. The authority issues a document that accompanies the explosives to their destination and is produced on request, and where special security requirements apply the consignee first supplies the operators' names and addresses, the number, quantity and description of the explosives with their UN number, the means of transfer, itinerary and dates. No operator may transfer explosives unless the consignee holds the necessary authorisations, and Member States may take extra measures against transfers during serious threats to public security.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 11 and Art. 13" }, { "q": "How long must records and documents be kept?", "a": "Manufacturers keep the technical documentation, the EU declaration of conformity and the EU-type examination certificate for 10 years after the explosive was placed on the market, authorised representatives keep the declaration and documentation at the authorities' disposal for the same period, and importers keep a copy of the declaration for 10 years. The identification and traceability data must be stored for 10 years after the transaction or, where the explosives were used or disposed of, 10 years after their use or disposal, even if the operator has ceased trading; for explosives outside that system, operators identify their suppliers and customers for 10 years.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 5(3), Art. 6(2), Art. 7(7), Art. 10 and Art. 15(3); Annex III, Module B, point 9" }, { "q": "Who enforces the Civil Explosives Directive in Denmark and what are the penalties?", "a": "Executive order nr. 1251 of 29 October 2025 on explosives, issued by Justitsministeriet under the weapons and explosives act and in force since 1 November 2025, makes Directive 2014/28/EU and Directive 2008/43/EC apply in Denmark and requires police permits to trade, store, transfer, acquire and use explosives, issued by politidirektøren i Midt- og Vestjyllands Politi; permits to trade cover only explosives that meet the directive's Articles 3 to 4, 5(1), 19 and 22 to 23 and Annexes II to IV. Breaches of its sections 2 to 11, of section 12(4), which makes a legal person name a natural person jointly responsible for compliance, or of the conditions attached to a permit are punished with a fine or imprisonment of up to 4 months, or up to 2 years under aggravating circumstances, and companies can be held liable under chapter 5 of the criminal code. Sikkerhedsstyrelsen, since January 2026 the Markedsovervågning department of Erhvervsstyrelsen, has controlled explosives for civil uses on behalf of Justitsministeriet since 1 August 2018 and can ask the police to investigate breaches; suspected non-compliant products are reported to Erhvervsstyrelsen.", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/1251; https://www.sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/eksplosivstoffer-civil-brug/eksplosivstoffer-civil-brug-vi-foerer-kontrol; https://www.sik.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-del-erhvervsstyrelsen" }, { "q": "Is the Civil Explosives Directive being revised?", "a": "The Commission published its evaluation of the directive on 19 September 2025 (SWD(2025) 266). It found that the directive is performing well on the whole but that some of its provisions are outdated and not fit for the digital age, and said it would reflect on the results and decide whether to launch a revision in line with the ProtectEU internal security strategy. No amending act has been adopted; the directive has not been amended since 2014, and Directive (EU) 2024/2749 on internal market emergency procedures does not cover it.", "source": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-publishes-evaluations-eu-rules-pyrotechnics-and-civil-explosives-2025-09-19_en; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" } ], "changelog": [ { "date": "2026-09-12", "kind": "guidance", "title": "Guide rewritten from the directive text on the SPEC-62 model", "summary": "The body was rewritten from the Official Journal text of Directive 2014/28/EU and the consolidated Directive 2008/43/EC: the article numbering now follows the directive (transfers Article 11, unique identification Article 15, licensing Article 16, conformity assessment Article 20, market surveillance Articles 41 to 45, penalties Article 50, transposition Article 52), the exact Annex III module choice and the exclusions are quoted, and the Danish implementation now cites executive order nr. 1251 of 29 October 2025 and the police as permit authority instead of unnamed authorities.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 11, Art. 15, Art. 16, Art. 20, Art. 41 to Art. 45, Art. 50 and Art. 52; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/1251" }, { "date": "2026-02-01", "kind": "amendment", "title": "Denmark: the explosives register is widened to every holder of explosives", "summary": "Executive order nr. 231 of 29 January 2026 rewords § 10(1) of executive order nr. 1251 of 29 October 2025 on explosives with effect from 1 February 2026. The duty to keep a register of receipts and issues of explosives, with their type, unique identification and storage place and the persons holding them at any time, now falls on any natural or legal person and no longer only on manufacturers and those marketing explosives under their own name or trade mark; only natural persons holding a permit to manufacture, including to reload ammunition, are exempt.", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/231 · § 1 and § 2; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/1251 · § 10" }, { "date": "2025-09-19", "kind": "guidance", "title": "Commission evaluation of the Civil Explosives Directive published", "summary": "The Commission staff working document SWD(2025) 266 finds that the directive is performing well on the whole but that some provisions are outdated and not fit for the digital age; the Commission will reflect on the results and decide whether to launch a revision in line with the ProtectEU strategy. No amendment has been adopted.", "source": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-publishes-evaluations-eu-rules-pyrotechnics-and-civil-explosives-2025-09-19_en" }, { "date": "2021-07-16", "kind": "applies", "title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 replaces the market surveillance articles of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008", "summary": "Chapter III, Articles 15 to 29, of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 is deleted and replaced by the market surveillance framework of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, which lists Directive 2014/28/EU as point 47 of its Annex I. Article 41 of the directive applies Articles 16 to 29 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 to explosives, so that reference is read as Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 from 16 July 2021, while the CE marking principles of Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 are untouched and continue to apply.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 39, point (4), Art. 44 and Annex I, point 47" }, { "date": "2016-04-20", "kind": "applies", "title": "Directive 2014/28/EU applies; Directives 93/15/EEC and 2004/57/EC repealed", "summary": "Member States apply their transposing measures from 20 April 2016, the directly applicable provisions and Annexes I, II, V and VI apply from the same date, and Directive 93/15/EEC as amended and Directive 2004/57/EC are repealed; explosives conforming to Directive 93/15/EEC and placed on the market before 20 April 2016 may still be made available, certificates issued under it stay valid, and Directive 2008/43/EC continues to apply until replaced by implementing acts under Article 15.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 51, Art. 52, Art. 53 and Art. 54" }, { "date": "2014-04-18", "kind": "in-force", "title": "Directive 2014/28/EU enters into force", "summary": "Adopted on 26 February 2014 as a recast of Directive 93/15/EEC aligned with the New Legislative Framework and published in OJ L 96 on 29 March 2014, the directive entered into force on the twentieth day after publication; Member States had until 19 April 2016 to transpose it.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028 · Art. 52(1) and Art. 54" } ], "sources": [ { "label": "Directive 2014/28/EU on the making available on the market and supervision of explosives for civil uses, OJ L 96, 29 March 2014 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "label": "Document information, dates and relationships for CELEX 32014L0028 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32014L0028" }, { "label": "Commission Directive 2008/43/EC setting up a system for the identification and traceability of explosives for civil uses, consolidated text of 14 March 2012 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0043-20120314" }, { "label": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "label": "Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 on accreditation and market surveillance, Article 30 on the CE marking (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32008R0765" }, { "label": "Explosives for civil uses, harmonised standards (European Commission, DG GROW)", "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards/explosives-civil-uses_en" }, { "label": "Commission publishes evaluations of EU rules on pyrotechnics and civil explosives, 19 September 2025 (European Commission, DG GROW)", "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-publishes-evaluations-eu-rules-pyrotechnics-and-civil-explosives-2025-09-19_en" }, { "label": "Bekendtgørelse nr. 1251 af 29. oktober 2025 om eksplosivstoffer (Retsinformation)", "url": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/1251" }, { "label": "Bekendtgørelse nr. 231 af 29. januar 2026 om ændring af bekendtgørelse om eksplosivstoffer (Retsinformation)", "url": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/231" }, { "label": "Bekendtgørelse af lov om våben og eksplosivstoffer m.v., LBK nr. 1736 af 26. august 2021 (Retsinformation)", "url": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2021/1736" }, { "label": "Eksplosivstoffer til civil brug, vi fører kontrol (Sikkerhedsstyrelsen)", "url": "https://www.sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/eksplosivstoffer-civil-brug/eksplosivstoffer-civil-brug-vi-foerer-kontrol" }, { "label": "Kontrol med udgangsstoffer til eksplosivstoffer (Sikkerhedsstyrelsen)", "url": "https://www.sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/udgangsstoffer-eksplosivstoffer/kontrol-udgangsstoffer-eksplosivstoffer" }, { "label": "Sikkerhedsstyrelsen, en del af Erhvervsstyrelsen from January 2026 (Sikkerhedsstyrelsen)", "url": "https://www.sik.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-del-erhvervsstyrelsen" } ], "reviewer": { "name": "Conphora compliance team", "role": "Compliance editors, Conphora" }, "reviewedAt": "2026-09-24", "nextReview": "2027-03-12", "links": { "tools": [], "courses": [], "related": { "en": "/regulations/expld/", "dk": "/dk/eu-regulativer/expld/" } } }