DEKRA e.V.

As an independent Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) company, we welcome the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence to ensure the safety and security of European consumers in the area of Artificial Intelligence.

The DEKRA Group welcomes the aim of the European Commission for the Sustainable Corporate Governance initiative to further embed sustainability into the corporate governance framework. Following the positive example and impact of legal framework for other important content areas that have been implemented successfully in the past, such as workplace health, occupational safety, or environmental protection, also…

DEKRA welcomes the revision of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and the aim to implement energy saving targets in the public sector, such as through the mandatory annual renovation of 3% of public buildings.

DEKRA, an international testing, inspection and certification company, very much welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for the Data Act, which fosters access to and use of data. The data generated by connected products will be crucial, among other things, for assessing the connected products’ continuous compliance with safety and security requirements.

For DEKRA, an independent TIC company, safety, security, and sustainability are our vision and mission. In the field of vehicle inspection, DEKRA represents a leader, whose objective is to ensure that vehicles are safe during their whole life cycle. To guarantee that future automated vehicles (AVs) also perform safely, access to in-vehicle data will be necessary.

One of DEKRA’s main activities is carrying out vehicle periodic technical inspections (PTI). From this perspective, it would be helpful to establish a battery-identification-system. Importantly, such an identification system should be transparent and accessible in a standardised way.

As an independent Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) company, safety, security, and sustainability are our vision and mission. For this reason, we welcome the European Commissions proposal for a Regulation on cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements to ensure the safety and security of European citizens.

DEKRA is an international independent testing, inspection and certification company with almost 44,000 employees in 50 countries and offers a broad portfolio of services. DEKRA is also specialized in various services connected to charging stations for electrical vehicles (EV).

ELEMENTS TO BE INCORPORATED IN A REVISED NIS DIRECTIVE DEKRA recommends incorporating three major elements when revising the NIS Directive. Please find them outlined in the following: 1. UNIFICATION OF EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES, LIMITATION OF GRANULARITY Under the flexibility of the current NIS Directive, each country has identified various operators of essential services (OES) by use of different criteria.

As one of the market-leading Notified Bodies (NBs), DEKRA welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on machinery products. We fully support that the proposal enhances the role of independent third parties as providers of testing, certification and inspection (TIC) services for machinery products and proposes to extend their competencies to ensure the safety of machinery products and in the…

With around 48,000 employees in around 60 countries on five continents DEKRA is one of the worlds largest independent and neutral automotive expert organization active in the testing, inspection, and certification ecosystem. Our vehicle and road safety experts have been at the forefront of advances in automotive developments since DEKRA was founded in 1925, as the German Vehicle Inspection Association.

DEKRA is an international independent testing, inspection and certification company with almost 44,000 employees in 50 countries, which conducts more than 26 million inspections across 22 countries each year. Founded more than 95 years ago as the German Vehicle Inspection Association, vehicle inspection is at the heart of DEKRA.

DEKRA welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to revise the General Product Safety Directive. We believe, that many important points to improve consumer safety have been addressed in the proposal. We support the following: • The Commission proposing to turn the Directive into a Regulation • The proposal to integrate the traceability requirements for products and the obligations for economic operators by…

In a global landscape defined by complex supply chains and rising environmental demands, both manufacturers and consumers are increasingly calling for clear and reliable information on product sustainability and performance. The harmonization of requirements for the labelling of all battery categories is therefore a step in the right direction.

The sheer ubiquity and deep integration of smartphones into modern society further amplify the potential impact of security failures, aligning with the criteria for Class 2 designation which considers the scale and severity of potential adverse effects.

DEKRA is an international testing, inspection, and certification company, which employs almost 48,000 people in over 60 countries on all six continents. One of DEKRA's core activities is performing periodic roadworthiness inspections on behalf of public authorities and by that ensuring that vehicles remain safe and compliant throughout their whole life.

As an independent Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) company, safety, security and sustainability are our vision and mission. For this reason, we welcome the European Commissions proposal for a Directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence to ensure legal certainty (AILD) and overcome fragmented, national liability rules regarding damages caused by AI products.