# European Standard (EN) — Certification marks and hazardous-area classifications: cross-market equivalences

For European Standard (EN), market / system is Europe; meaning is A-deviations do not release CENELEC members from their obligation to implement the relevant European Standard; administered by is CENELEC, recorded from its source on 2026-08-11.

- **Designation:** European Standard (EN)
- **Market / system:** Europe
- **Meaning:** A-deviations do not release CENELEC members from their obligation to implement the relevant European Standard _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Administered by:** CENELEC _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> A-deviations do not release CENELEC members from their obligation to implement the relevant European Standard

## Source

- https://boss.cenelec.eu/homegrowndeliverables/en/pages/adev/

Last verified: 2026-08-11. Review by: 2027-08-11.
Part of [Certification marks and hazardous-area classifications: cross-market equivalences](https://referencesource.org/certification-standards-equivalence/).