On February 3, 2006, China's General Administration of Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and CNCA jointly issued the Regulations on the Administration of Compulsory Product Certification, which implemented the compulsory certification management of "unified catalogue, unified standards and evaluation procedures, unified marks and unified fees" for the products listed in the Catalogue. The original CCIB certification and the Great Wall CCEE certification are unified as compulsory certification in China, abbreviated as CCC in English, so it is also abbreviated as 3C certification.
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"3C" certification was fully implemented from May 1 day, 2003 (later postponed to August 1 day), and the original product safety certification and import safety and quality licensing system were abolished at the same time. At present, the published compulsory product certification systems include Regulations on the Administration of Compulsory Product Certification, Measures for the Administration of Compulsory Product Certification Marks, Catalogue of the First Batch of Compulsory Product Certification and Notice on Relevant Issues Concerning the Implementation of Compulsory Product Certification. The first batch of products listed in the compulsory certification catalogue include wires and cables, switches, low-voltage electrical appliances, power tools, household appliances, audio-visual equipment, information equipment, telecommunications terminals, motor vehicles, medical devices, safety precautions and so on.
It should be noted that the 3C mark is not a quality mark, but the most basic safety certification. Some of its indicators represent the safety and quality of products, but they do not mean that the performance of products is equally excellent. Therefore, when purchasing products, other indicators are also very important, except whether there is a 3C mark.