If you sell boats or components around the world, you need to talk to HPi Verification Services.
HPiVS is the only company licenced to certify boats and components to CE, UKCA and Saudi Arabian regulations. HPiVS’ CE certificates are also recognised in countless other jurisdictions around the world from Australia to Mauritius to Hong Kong.
HPiVS is also a certifier for the EU Pressure Equipment Directive, which applies to hydrogen systems on boats.
In 1984, the International Standards Organization (ISO) created Technical Committee 188 to write standards for Small Craft. TC 188 really came into prominence in the 1990s when the European Union needed a suite of standards to support its Recreational Craft Directive (RCD). Since that legislation came into force (1996), all manufacturers wanting to sell their products into Europe, have adopted the ISO Small Craft standards.
While the impetus came from the EU for its RCD legislation, these are truly international standards written with input from many countries far beyond Europe
The World is moving to ISO Standards
An increasing number of countries around the world are writing legislation, like Europe, that uses ISO’s Small Craft standards as its way of measuring conformity with its own legislation. Australia and New Zealand, for example, were very quick to say that they would allow CE marked products onto their market, because they were using ISO standards that their governments recognise. Post Brexit, the UK has done the same. Saudi Arabia introduced their own small craft legislation in 2024 that obliges conformity with many of the Small Craft ISO standards.
Contact us today to ensure full compliance with all regulations or to schedule inspections for selling crafts to Saudi Arabian suppliers.
