GUIDELINES OF IMPORTS FOR THE TRADE

CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT OF LOW

VOLTAGE DEVICES (LVD) AND TOYS
AS PER GSO TECHNICAL
REGULATIONS
This data sheet has been prepared specifically in respect of exports to the GSO Member States
Date issued: 10/06/2018 Last modification: 22/09/2019

1. PRODUCT CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT (PCA) MANDATE

PROGRAM NAME Gulf Conformity Tracking System (GCTS)

PROGRAM MANDATED BY GCC Standardization Organization (GSO)

1. Toys: for the full copy of the Toys regulation click here
1.1. 1 Jan 2014 (except chemical requirements)
IMPLEMENTATION DATE 1.2. 15 July 2015 (chemical requirements included)
2. LVD: 1 July 2016. For the full copy of the regulation click here
• Additional Requirement of GCTS is introduced on 1 July 2016 to be
mandatory since 1 April 2017.
• Assess the adequacy of designs of the regulated products and their
compliance with the implemented GSO regulations.
PROGRAMME SCOPE • Issuance of the Gulf Type Examination Certificate(s).
• Issuance of Verification of Conformity Certificate(s).
• Registering the products on GCTS (Gulf Conformity Tracking
System).
REGULATED PRODUCTS
• As per attached list.
• Designs verification
ASSESSMENT METHODS • Sample verification
• Laboratory testing
• Documentary verification
• Gulf Type Examination for complying LVD.
• Gulf Type Examination for Toys complying with GSO technical
regulation and cannot be covered with GSO EN standards
• Verification of Conformity Certificate for Toys complying with GSO
FORMS OF ATTESTATION EN standards.
• Certificate of Conformity (for complying toys shipped to GCC from
unlinked importers).
• Gulf Conformity Tracking Symbol (GMARK with QR Coode) to be
affixed on the product(s), their packages and/or instruction manuals
(as per the regulation requirements).

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PURPOSE OF ATTESTATION • The GCTS will be checked by clearance authorities and market
surveillance to assess the compliance of the products
• Fees are billed as per level of intervention of SGS in the conformity
assessment procedure.
• The fees can cover:
FEES o Documentary verification
o Testing
o GSO registration fees (GCTS)
o Verification of design
o Issuance of Gulf Type Examination.
o Application Review fees.
2. VERIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
• Not Applicable as of Regulations Provisions. However, it can
INSPECTION
apply to Toys CoC issuance.
Test reports: only test reports from the following entities will be
considered:

TESTING • SGS and/or Notified Body Laboratories.

• IECEE CBTL laboratory (for Electrical toys and LVD).
• In-house laboratory that is ISO17025 accredited lab and in
accordance with Article 22 of the GSO regulations.
Applicable standards:
STANDARDS
• GSO approved standards can be found on:
https://www.gso.org.sa/harmonized-standards/
Documents required for CoC issuance:

• Completed Request for Certification (RFC)

• Declaration that the application is lodged to 1 Notified Body only
• List of Products
• Specimen(s) as required.
• Art works and manuals.
• Technical Documents (as per the regulations)
• Test reports according to the approved GSO standards list.
CERTIFICATION ISSUANCE
Other documents: when applicable and/or relevant, the following
documents may also be requested:

• Copies of accreditations from the laboratory where testing was

performed
• Authorization letter for the Authorized Representative

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3. Regulated Products
H.S Code Products
Category Scope
2012 2017 Regulated Not regulated

➢ Air purifiers / Dehumidifier;

➢ Appliances for changing
➢ Ceiling fans; temperature and humidity;
➢ Pedestal fans; ➢ Evaporative air coolers;
➢ Tower fans; ➢ Mist fans;
➢ Table fans; ➢ Air curtains;
➢ Wall fans; ➢ Exhaust fans for non-
84145110 ➢ Floor standing household use;
fans; ➢ Mini sirocco fans;
Electrical 84145100
1. Household 84145120 ➢ Box fans; ➢ Fans for cooling electric
Fans 84145900 ➢ Air mover / blower equipment;
electrical fans
84145900 fan, only for ➢ Roof-top fans;
household use; ➢ Range hoods;
➢ Duct fans, only for ➢ Fans to be incorporated in
household use; other
➢ Partition fans; applications/appliances;
➢ Exhaust fans, only ➢ Appliances intended
for household use exclusively for industrial
purpose and high pressure
centrifugal fans
➢ Bread toasters for
household and
similar use;
(vertical and/or
horizontal
2. Household Toasters 85167200 85167200 heating); ➢ non-household use toasters
toasters ➢ Sandwich
toasters;
➢ Oven toasters;
➢ Combination
toasters.

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 ➢ Ice makers;
➢ Ice-cream appliances;
Household ➢ Water coolers and other
refrigerating cooling appliances;
appliances: ➢ Refrigerating appliances
exceeding 900 litters
➢ Single door capacity;
refrigerators & ➢ Chest freezers exceeding
Combined 800 litters capacity;
refrigerator- ➢ Refrigerators and freezers
freezers not used for the display of food
exceeding 900 products, including
liters capacity; beverages, for retail sale;
3. Household 84181000 84181000 ➢ Double door or ➢ Dispensing appliances and
refrigerators, multi-door vending machines;
84182100 84182100
freezers and Refrigerating refrigerators ➢ Refrigerating appliances for
84182900 84182900 combined laboratory and/or medical
other appliances
84183000 84183000 refrigerator- use;
refrigerating 84184000 84184000 freezers not ➢ Refrigerating appliances for
or freezing exceeding 900 industrial use;
equipment liters capacity; ➢ Appliances powered by dc
➢ Mini fridges and extra low voltage supply
beverage coolers, (e.g. In a car) and/or
for household use incorporating a battery
only; Intended as a power supply
➢ Chest freezers not for the refrigerating function;
exceeding 800 ➢ Non-household appliances
liters capacity; assembled on site by the
➢ Upright freezers installer;
not exceeding 900 ➢ Appliances with remote
liters capacity. motor-compressors;
➢ Motor-compressors as parts
for refrigerators.
84211200 Machines with dry
Tumble 84211200 linen capacity not
84501900
dryers 84501900 exceeding 10 kg:
84501200
➢ Machines with dry linen
➢ Electric tumble capacity exceeding 10 kg;
84211200 dryers; ➢ Clothes dryers, other than
4. Household Spin 84211200
clothes dryers extractors 84501900
84501900 ➢ Electric washing tumble dryers and spin
84501200 machines (fully, extractors;
and clothes semi-automatic or ➢ Electrically heated towel
washing manual control) of rails;
Clothes 84501100 84501100
machines,
washing 84501200 84501200 any type (drum, ➢ Laundromat washers and
including impeller, front- dryers;
machines 84501900 84501900
machines loading, top- ➢ Dry-cleaning machines;
which both loading...); ➢ Dishwashers;
➢ Washing ➢ Appliances intended for
wash and dry 84501100 84501100
Washer- machines commercial and for industrial
84501200 84501200 incorporating a purpose.
dryers
84501900 84501900 spin extractor or
drying function;
➢ Spin extractors

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 ➢ Graters;
➢ Bean slicers;
➢ Shredders;
➢ Food grinders;
➢ Choppers without food
➢ Mincers;
mixing or blending functions;
➢ Food mixers;
➢ Slicing machines;
➢ Centrifugal juicers
➢ Can openers;
and slow juicers;
➢ Knife sharpeners;
➢ Citrus-fruit
Food ➢ Knives;
squeezers;
➢ Ice-cream appliances,
5. Household food grinders, ➢ Berry-juice
including those for use in
grinders and mixers, fruit extractors;
85094000 85094000 refrigerators and freezers; or
mixers, fruit or and vegetable ➢ Blenders;
those with incorporated
juice ➢ Coffee mills;
vegetable juice motor compressors;
➢ Grain grinders;
extractors extractors ➢ Potato peelers;
➢ Multifunctional
➢ Milk frothers;
food processors
➢ Noodle makers;
and kitchen
➢ Food waste disposers;
machines, only for
➢ Churns;
household use;
➢ Sieving machines;
➢ Cream whippers;
➢ Kitchen machines intended
➢ Egg beaters
for commercial purposes;
➢ Kitchen machines intended
for industrial purposes.
➢ Facial saunas;
➢ Shavers, hair clippers and
similar appliances;
➢ Hair removers, epilators;
➢ Appliances for skin exposure
to optical radiation;
➢ Hairdryers;
➢ Cosmetic and beauty care
➢ Hair straighteners;
appliances incorporating
➢ Curling irons;
lasers and intense light
➢ Curling rollers with
sources;
separate heaters,
➢ Pedicure, manicure
only for household
appliances;
use;
➢ Hand towel or hand soap
➢ Heaters for
dispensers;
detachable
6. Household Hair-dressing ➢ Helmet type hair drying
85163100 85163100 curlers, only for
electro-thermic apparatus for use in
or hand- household use;
hair-dressing, 85163200 85163200 hairdressing salons;
drying ➢ Curling combs;
85163300 85163300 ➢ Permanent-wave
skin apparatus apparatus ➢ Hand dryers.
appliances, curling rollers
and hand with separate heaters,
dryers heaters for detachable
Appliances covered
curlers etc. Or use in hair
by this category may
dressing salons;
incorporate ion-
➢ Animal clippers, animal
producing (ionizer)
shearers;
devices.
➢ Blankets, pads, clothing and
similar flexible heating
appliances;
➢ Electric body dryers;
➢ Appliances intended for
medical purposes;
➢ Appliances exclusively
intended for commercial
use.

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 ➢ Cab heaters;
➢ Heaters intended for the
heating of caravans;
➢ Heaters for use in
greenhouses, other than
those for domestic use;
➢ Blankets, pads, clothing and
similar flexible heating
appliances;
➢ Foot warmers and heating
➢ Fan heaters; mats;
➢ Liquid-filled ➢ Heating appliances for
radiators; breeding and rearing
➢ Radiant heaters; animals;
➢ Panel heaters; ➢ Flexible sheet heating
➢ Convector elements for room heating;
heaters; ➢ Heated carpets;
7. Household Room
85162910 85162910 ➢ Tubular heaters; ➢ Thermal-storage room
electric heating heaters ➢ Heaters for use in heaters;
apparatus greenhouses, only ➢ Heaters for saunas;
for domestic use; ➢ Electric incense burners;
➢ Ceiling mounted ➢ Electrically heated towel
heat lamp rails;
appliances; ➢ Appliances where heat is
➢ Electric space generated by other means
heaters than electricity (e.g. gas,
kerosene burners), also
those with electrical
connections;
➢ Heaters built into air-
conditioners;
➢ Central heating systems;
➢ Heating cables;
➢ Appliances intended
exclusively for industrial
purposes
➢ Non-household microwave
8. Household Microwave ➢ Microwave ovens; ovens (commercial,
85165000 85165000 ➢ Combination industrial, microwave for
microwave ovens
microwave ovens. laboratories);
ovens
➢ Parts of microwaves ovens.
Stationary ➢ Gas cooking ranges without
➢ Electrical
cooking electrical heating elements,
stationary cooking
ranges, hobs, also those with electrical
85166000 85166000 ranges, hobs,
ovens and connection for ignition, fan
ovens and similar
9. Household and lamp etc.;
similar appliances;
ovens, cookers, ➢ Barbecues for outdoor use
appliances ➢ Mixed gas/electric
cooking plates, ➢ Deep fat fryers
cooking
➢ Appliances for boiling water
boiling rings, Grills and appliances
for human consumption and
grillers and similar including electric
similar appliances, such as
roasters heating elements
portable 85166000 85166000 kettles, hot water dispensers
(e.g. gas range
cooking and other appliances for
with electric
appliances boiling water
oven);
➢ Coffee and tea makers.

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 Warming ➢ Grills, roasters, ➢ Samovars
plates and 85166000 hot plates, ➢ Feeding-bottle heaters
85166000 cookers, boilers, ➢ milk heaters;
similar 85167990
table-top ovens, ➢ pop-corn makers;
appliances air fryers, waffle ➢ coffee roasters;
irons, pancake ➢ candy floss makers;
Appliances in makers, bread ➢ food dehydrators;
which oil is makers and ➢ electric charcoal starters;
85166000 85166000
used for similar portable ➢ appliances intended to be
cooking cooking or baking used professionally to
appliances; process food in restaurants,
➢ Frying pans, woks catering and similar;
and other certain ➢ appliances intended for
appliances in industrial food production.
which a limited
amount of oil is
used for cooking;
➢ Steam cookers,
slow cookers, rice
Appliances 85166000 cookers, egg
for heating 85166000 boilers and other
liquids 85167990 certain cooking
appliances
employing heating
of liquids;
➢ Warming plates
and similar
appliances;
➢ Soy milk makers;
➢ Yoghurt makers.
➢ Electric storage water
heaters having a capacity
exceeding 200 litters;
Instantaneous 85161000 ➢ Electric ➢ Appliances for heating water
85161000 instantaneous to boiling temperature, such
water heaters 85161010
water heaters; as kettles, hot water
➢ Electric storage dispensers, tea makers etc.;
water heaters, of ➢ Commercial dispensing
a capacity 200 appliances and vending
litters or less; machines;
10. Household Storage water 85161000 ➢ Fixed electric ➢ Aquarium heaters;
85161000
electric heaters 85161010 immersion heaters ➢ Waterbed heaters;
instantaneous intended for ➢ Non-household portable
or storage Fixed installation in a immersion heaters and
85161000 water tank open to industrial use appliances;
water heaters immersion 85161000
85161010 the atmosphere; ➢ Engine preheaters such as
and heaters
➢ Portable electric those for cars and buses;
immersion immersion heaters ➢ Water heaters without
heaters intended for electrical heat source (e.g.
heating of small gas-fired or solar thermal),
amounts of water also if provided with
Portable directly in a electrical connection for
85161000
immersion 85161000 suitable vessel ignition, control etc.;
85161010
heaters such as a cup or ➢ Heating elements
can incorporated in portable
appliances;
➢ Industrial purposes water
heaters.
Electric irons 85164000 85164000 ➢ Electric ironers; for example,

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 Ironers 85164000 85164000 oIroning presses for one-
person operation;
oMangles;
oRotary ironers for one-
➢ Electric dry irons person operation;
and steam irons, oTrouser presses;
including those ➢ Steam cleaners;
11. Electric 85164000 with a separate ➢ Vacuum ironing boards;
smoothing Fabric water reservoir or ➢ Steam press machines;
85164000 85167990*
irons steamers boiler ➢ Rotary irons operated by
84513000*
➢ Electric fabric more than one person;
steamers. ➢ Appliances for commercial
use in laundry shops or
similar;
➢ Appliances for industrial and
similar use.
➢ Central air conditioning
machines;
➢ Air conditioners for non-
residential applications such
as industrial and similar use
➢ Electric air
➢ Evaporative air coolers;
conditioners
➢ Heat pumps, including
incorporating
sanitary hot water heat
motor-
84151000 pumps;
Electrical air- compressors and
12. Household air 84151000 84151010 ➢ Dehumidifiers;
conditioners hydronic fan coils
84151020 ➢ Air purifiers;
conditioners units
➢ Fans to be incorporated in
➢ Partial units (e.g.
air conditioning equipment;
indoor / outdoor
➢ Supplementary heaters to
units shipped
be incorporated in air
separately)
conditioning equipment;
➢ Humidifiers intended for use
with heating and cooling
equipment;
➢ Automotive air conditioners.
95030000

95030010
➢ Playground equipment
95030020 intended for public use;
➢ Products ➢ Automatic playing machines,
designed or whether coin operated or
9503 95030030
intended, whether not, intended for public use;
Toys or not exclusively, ➢ Toy vehicles equipped with
13. Children Toys 95030090 for use in play by combustion engines;
children under 14 ➢ Toy steam engines; and
95062100 years of age. ➢ Slings and catapults.
➢ All the products mentioned
95030040 in Annex I of the regulation.

25059000

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 14. Household ➢ Plugs and
socket-
Plugs, Socket 85444221
outlets ➢ For included and
outlets, 85444229 ➢ For included and excluded
➢ Adaptors excluded
Adaptors, 85444220 85366910
➢ Cord products in this products in this category
85366910 85369091
Cord extension please contact SGS
85044013 category please
Extension sets
➢ Battery contact SGS
Sets and
chargers chargers

4. Contact Information
Abhishek Syamkumar

Governments and Institutions

SGS Gulf Ltd

Jebel Ali Free Zone – South

Office: S3A1SR01
P.O. Box: 18556, Jebel Ali Free Zone
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971 4 880 93 93 ext.: 220
Fax: +971 4 880 9008
Mob: +971 50 283 6947
E-mail: Abhishek.SK@sgs.com

The information contained herein is for the purpose of facilitating pre-shipment inspection and does not relieve
exporters or importers from their obligation in respect of compliance with the import regulations of the country of
importation. Although every effort has been made to ensure the correctness of the information, as at the date of
issuance of this data sheet, SGS does not accept any responsibility for errors or omissions and, furthermore, the
information may subsequently be subject to change as may be announced by the Authorities in the country of
importation. Consequently, exporters and importers are advised to check with SGS, prior to shipment of the
goods, if there is any doubt concerning the issuance of a Clean Report of Findings or any other Certificate. For
further information, or clarification, please contact the SGS GIS Administrative Office in the country of inspection
of the goods.

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