How ImportaMT works
Determining which legislation applies to a product, and declaring conformity with it, is the manufacturer’s and the importer’s obligation. ImportaMT does not take that obligation over. It checks the file.
The problem it addresses
An importer usually discovers a documentary gap at the worst possible moment: after the goods have shipped, when the cost of a missing Declaration of Conformity is measured in demurrage and lost selling season. Nothing in the ordinary course tells an importer, in advance, whether their file will stand up.
What the service does
A designated verifier — an MCCAA officer or an external expert engaged through a published call — assesses one product’s documentation against a published, versioned checklist for its product type. Five questions are recorded on every file: completeness, the formal validity of the Declaration, the appropriateness of the acts cited given the declared intended use, whether those citations are still current, and whether the markings, labels and instructions cohere with the Declaration.
What it deliberately does not do
ImportaMT publishes no table telling importers which legislation applies to their product. A scheme that prescribes the applicable acts takes on the manufacturer’s liability; a scheme that checks the declaration does not. The acts on your decision are the acts your documents declare.
Who governs it
A Committee chaired by the Director of Market Surveillance, with the Directors of Standardisation and of Enforcement as members, governs the scheme: it maintains the product type list, publishes checklists, designates verifiers and runs the second-review programme. It never decides individual verification requests.
The five steps, in order
Choose the product type
Pick your product’s category. If it falls to another authority we tell you which one, before anything is payable.
Work through its checklist
Each product type carries a reusable checklist — typically an EU Declaration of Conformity plus photographs of the product and its marking.
Upload and declare
Add your documents, the trader and applicant details, and the product’s intended use.
A verifier vets the file
A designated MCCAA verifier assesses completeness, the formal validity of the Declaration, the acts cited, whether they are current, and whether everything is coherent.
You receive a formal decision
VERIFIED or NOT VERIFIED, published at its own address with a QR-coded PDF receipt Customs can resolve.