Its primary purpose is to draft the European Technical Assessment (ETA) documents.
As from 11 June 2013, EOTA reregistered as the organisation for technical assessment according to Article 31 of the Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011, laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC (this Regulation being referred to hereafter as CPR).
EOTA's primary purpose is the drafting of the European Technical Assessment (ETA) which is a document providing information about the performance of a construction product, to be declared in relation to its essential characteristics.
This definition is provided in the new Construction Products Regulation (EU/305/2011) entered into force on 1 July 2013, in all European Members States and in the European Economic Area.,[1] and are designed to reduce technical barriers in the construction products sector throughout Europe.
Once a building product has an ETA certificate, it can display the CE mark[2] and can be sold Europe wide.