The European Commission has stated that, in the event of No Deal, product safety certificates issued by UK Notified Bodies (NBs) will become invalid for products placed on the EU-27 market after the withdrawal date:

In response, UK NBs have been seeking notified status in the EU-27 through a subsidiary or other arm of their company or organisation. In my last post, taking medical devices as an example, I examined how far this process has progressed. The largest UK medical devices NB, BSI, achieved notified status in the Netherlands in November 2018, and began transferring certificates across to its Dutch subsidiary. Lloyds Register and SGS UK are part way through the process, while UL UK do not appear to be making any such No Deal preparations.
While some manufacturers may have acted independently after the UK’s decision to leave the EU, and transferred to a different company already notified in the EU-27, it would appear from certificates currently available online that many have stayed with their UK NBs. As things stand, therefore, a No Deal withdrawal could result in an immediate loss of market access for many medical devices, with potentially serious consequences for recipients of medical services in the EU-27, and for manufacturers worldwide.
SGS, the world’s largest, Testing, Inspection and Certification company, have remained sanguine, describing the Commission’s position as ‘extreme’, and expressing confidence that the EU-27 will adopt a ‘more pragmatic position’ and allow UK NB certificates to continue to be recognised while they are being transferred to EU-27 bodies:

In this short post I:
i) show that EU product safety legislation does not contain provisions which specify the status of certificates issued prior to a denotification;
ii) argue that current Commission guidance indicates strongly that there should be no immediate loss of validity of such certificates.
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