China CCC Guide for Safety
What is the CCC Certificate or CCC Mark?
The China Compulsory Certification (or CCC) is a systematic, independent product certification system responsible for safety and EMC issues and China's national safety and quality mark.
The CCC Mark is a compulsory safety mark that must be affixed before products can be imported and sold in China.
On Dec. 2001, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China, abbreviated as AQSIQ, and the Certification Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China announced the compulsory product certification system, named as "China Compulsory Certification", abbreviated as "CCC", to replace the Compulsory Supervision System for Product Safety Certification and the Safety License System for Import Commodities. For the products required compulsory certifications by the People's Republic of China, a catalogue, named as "First Catalogue of Products Subject to China Compulsory Certification" was announced as well. All those products in this catalogue must pass the certifications through the certification organizations designated by the People's Republic of China, and must not be sold, imported and used in sales activities until achieve related certificates with certificate marks. The CCC was effective from May 1, 2003.
The CCC certification system is mainly based on National Chinese Standards (GB-Standards) for products listed in the Catalogue of Products subject to Compulsory Certification. Each category of products has its own implementation rules. The rules indicate product scope, application method, required documents, testing factory inspection, and mark requirements.
The CCC scheme consists of:
a certificate issued by a certification body appointed by the China government — in most cases the China Quality Centre (CQC).
a mark to be placed either on the product itself, its packaging or both.
Any product mentioned in the CCC Catalogue must comply with foregoing requirements of CCC scheme.
The Certification and Accreditation Administration (CNCA), under AQSIQ, is a regulatory body that manages both a voluntary certification system and a compulsory product certification system. The CCC Catalogue of CCC mandatory products is approved and released jointly by AQSIQ and the CNCA.
The China Quality Certification Centre (CQC) is a national certification body of China that responsible for administering the CCC mark. The CCC Certification is issued by the CQC including both safety and EMC testing for most of products.
How to know whether your product is subject to CCC certification?
Here is the "First Catalogue of Products Subject to China Compulsory Certification (CCC)" in details. If your product is in this catalogue, you should contact us to apply for the CCC certification. If the product name used is different from that listed in the Catalogue, please refer to Collection of Standards for Products Subject to CCC Certification to determine whether that product is subjected to CCC certification according to relevant applicable standards.
What are CCC procedures?
Followings are CCC's procedures, and CQC has similar procedures as CCC. For each product, the procedures may be almost same, and only vary in some details, like the required application documents, the number of sample products, etc. Contact us if you have any question. Here is a flow chart of the CCC procedures.
1. -> Initial Consultation
At first, you can contact us your intent for CCC application and explain what kind of product you have, what kind of certificate you plan to apply for, what's your product model and specifications, product sample and description. If you can provide us some pictures of the product, it would be very helpful for us. After we receive the information about your product, we will provide you the best certification plan, the requirements for the application documents and blueprints, and the estimated initial related expense. We will send you some documents like Application Form, Agency Authorization Notification to fill in.
2. -> Application
When we receive the Application Form and the Agency Authorization Notification signed and returned by you, we will create a case number and begin to process your application. We will also work out the Certification Agency Agreement to clarify the certification business terms and conditions and the responsibilities of each other. Meanwhile, you may prepare other materials and documents as required.
3. -> Agreement Signing
When you sign and return the Certification Agency Agreement to us, you may need to pay the cost indicated in the terms of the agreement as well. After we receive the signed agreement and the payment from you, we will assign a specialist to take care your case and contact with appropriate lab and engineers.
4. -> Technical Support (Optional)
According to your request, our specialist will explain the standards and safety requirement related to your product, arrange test of real situation and structure pretest, translate the Chinese documents into English, and so on.
The cost of technical supports may vary on the real situations.
5. -> Preparation for Test Submission
Our specialist will send you the feedback from the certification organization in time, and notify you any product sample requirement and cost required by test or retest, and all documents from the certification organization required to be signed by you , like application form of certification organization, structural parameters list, tracing service agreement, etc.
You should prepare well the product sample and the document materials, and send to us.
6. -> Test submission
Our specialist will turn in your product sample, document materials and payment to the corresponding certification organization or lab, and keep tracing the procedures of the case, send the feedback about test information to you until the case is closed.
7. -> Retest
If test comes out some rejection, you may need to rectify and improve the product sample and resend the sample to do the retest. Or, you can cancel this case, and reapply when it's mature enough.
We can provide opinions to help you for rectification and improvement.
8. -> Initial Factory Examination or Inspection before certificate issuance
After your case begun, the certification organization or designated inspection organization will come to your factory to do the initial factory examination or inspection before certificate issuance (except CE certificate), to investigate the factory test and manufacturing procedures qualifying the requirements or not. To pass this examination or inspection is the prerequisite for you to achieve the certificate.
9. -> Follow-up services (Optional)
After the certification case is close, we can provide a series of annual services based on your requirement, like certificate mark purchase, translation of incoming, outgoing mails and documents, payment service, revised pages replacement, application change, etc.
The complete CCC certification process includes 7 steps:
application
product testing
initial factory inspection
obtaining the CCC certificate
marking (CCC mark is affixed to the product)
annual follow-up factory inspection
market surveillance
For some product categories, there is a specific certification mode called “the Self-Declaration Assessment Mode”. Manufacturers of such products can choose between two different certification modes in future: between the common CCC Certification Scheme and the Self-Declaration Assessment Mode.
The self-declaration procedure is governed by CNCA-00C-008: 2018 and includes two types of the declaration scheme:
Type “A” (scheme allows choosing any laboratory for testing)
Type “B” (scheme requires to use only the laboratory accredited by the CNAS)
The following products can be subject to the self-declaration procedure:
Low-voltage switchgears (type B)
Low power motors (type B);
Information technology equipment, audio- and video equipment with a nominal rated voltage equal to or less than 5V (Type A), etc.
Apart from the CCC certification, some products may need to meet other requirements and obtain other types of approval. EMC compliance is required where applicable.
Besides CCC certificate, some products may need other licenses as well.
For example,
Telecommunication products may need to get Network Access License from MII.
Radio (RF) products may need to get licenses from RMB in MII (previously SRRC).
TV products may need to get licenses from SARFT.
Medical devices may need to get registrations in SFDA.
Electromechanical products may need to get import permits from electromechanical offices.
Other products not in the CCC product catalogues may need to satisfy other corresponding regulations. For example:
Measuring instruments may need to get the Pattern Approval.
The labelling on food/cosmetic products must comply to the Chinese GB standards.
Batteries imported into China need to get permit from CIQ.
Drugs, health foods and pharmaceutical packaging should comply to the regulations of SFDA.
Agricultural seed, livestock and fish imports may need to get permits from MOA.
Special-purposed equipments, including pressure vessel, need to get licenses from AQSIQ.
Having your products tested and certified by corresponding Chinese certificates before imported into China would facilitate your import, and therefore increase your reputation and creditability greatly among the consumers in China market. Contact us if you have any question..
Till Jun. 16th, 2006, only 14 Chinese certification organizations had been designated by CNCA for CCC Product Certifcation.
Among these 14 Chinese CCC certification organizations, CQC, which we belong to, is the largest certification organization. All these 14 certification organizations are located in China mainland. No foreign organization has been authorized for CCC certification.
Till Jun. 16th, 2006, only 136 Chinese laboratories had been designated by CNCA for CCC Product Test.
All these 136 laboratories are in China mainland and each laboratory had been designated by CNCA to undertake certain CCC product tests. No foreign laboratory has been authorized for CCC product tests.
Till Jul. 30th, 2006, 22 product categories (with 159 subcategories total) have been included by CCC Product Catalogue.
Besides the First Product Catalogue in 2003 which includes 19 product categories with 132 subcategories, several categories had been included by CCC Certificate after year 2003:
Wireless Network Products (effective from 2004-1-1)
Home Decor Products (effective from 2005-8-1)
Safety Protection Products (effective from 2005-10-1)
Automotive Accessories (effective from 2006-12-1)
Toy Products (effective from 2007-6-1)
Agricultural machines (effective from 2008-5-1)
Information Security Products (effective from 2009-5-1)
Other products, like agricultural machines, transportation safety products, construction products, and others related to safety are in plan to be included by CCC certificate.
The 3C mark is generally attached to the surface of the product, or pressed onto the product by molding.You will find a number of elliptical "CCC" notes if you look closely. Each 3C logo has a random code behind it, and each random code has the corresponding manufacturer and product.Consumers can check the code the National Quality Certification Center,as the certification mark issuing management center has entered the code corresponding product into the computer database When issuing the compulsory product certification mark.
Example of CCC mark
Starting from March 20, 2018, the CNCA no longer needs to approve the application of the CCC mark and manufacturers are able to print and use the CCC mark without the CNCA's permission based on the CACA regulations. However, this doesn't allow manufacturers to apply the CCC logo to products that don't complete the certification.
Sample Preparation
Samples must include all accessories, operating instructions and software to exercise the product.
| Standards | Local Testing | Local Representative | Factory Inspection | Project Time |
| GB Standards | Yes | No | Yes | 3~8 weeks |
China CCC Database Search -> CCC Approval Database
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