(a) Content requirements. Each finished product certificate must:
(1) Identify the finished product(s) covered by the certificate. Finished product certificates must contain at least one of the following unique identifiers: global trade item number (GTIN), model number, registered number, serial number, stock keeping number (SKU), universal product code (UPC), or alternate identifier, along with a sufficient description to match the finished product to the certificate. Finished product certificates may also include other identifiers, such as lot number, model style, and model color, that may assist with product identification.
(2) State each consumer product safety rule under the CPSA, or similar rule, ban, standard, or regulation under any law enforced by the Commission, to which the finished product(s) are being certified. Finished product certificates must identify separately all applicable rules, bans, standards, or regulations.
(3) Identify the finished product certifier that is certifying compliance of the finished product(s), as set forth in § 1110.7, including the party's name, street address, city, state or province, country or administrative region, electronic mail (email) address, and telephone number.
(4) Identify and provide contact information (consisting, at a minimum, of the individual's name, street address, city, state or province, country or administrative region, email address, and telephone number) for the individual maintaining records listed in § 1110.17 on behalf of the finished product certifier. The individual can be a position title, provided that the position is always staffed and responsive to CPSC's requests.
(5) Provide the date (month and year, at a minimum) and place (including a manufacturer name, street address, city, state or province, country or administrative region, email address, and telephone number) where the finished product(s) were manufactured, produced, or assembled. For manufacturing runs over a series of days, provide the initial date of manufacture (month and year, at a minimum).
(6) Provide the most recent date and place(s) (including for each third party conformity assessment body or other party on whose testing the finished product certificate depends, the name, street address, city, state or province, country or administrative region, email address, and telephone number) where the finished product(s) were tested for compliance with the rule(s), ban(s), standard(s), or regulation(s) cited in § 1110.11(a)(4).
(7) Provide the finished product certifier's attestation. For eFiled certificates required in § 1110.13(a)(1), attestations are included in the Product Registry and in CPSC's Partner Government Agency (PGA) Message Set CBP and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) Implementation Guide (including revisions thereto). Paper and electronic finished product certificates described in § 1110.9(b) and (c), and required in §§ 1110.13(a)(2), (b), and (c), must include the following attestation by the finished product certifier:
I hereby certify that the finished product(s) covered by this certificate comply with the rules, bans, standards, and regulations stated herein, and that the information in this certificate is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief. I understand and acknowledge that it is a United States federal crime to knowingly and willfully make any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement, representation, or omission on this certificate.
(b) Electronic access to records. In addition to identification of the individual maintaining records, as described in § 1110.11(a)(4), a finished product certificate may include a URL, or other electronic means, which provides electronic access to the required underlying records to support the certificate as specified in §§ 1107.26 and 1109.5(g) of this chapter, or any other applicable consumer product safety rule, ban, standard, or regulation enforced by the Commission.
(c) Statutory or regulatory testing exclusions: Unless otherwise provided by the Commission, if a finished product certifier is claiming a statutory or regulatory testing exclusion to an applicable consumer product safety rule or similar rule, ban, standard, or regulation, then in addition to listing all applicable rules, bans, standards, and regulations as required under § 1110.11(a)(2), and in lieu of providing the date and place where testing was conducted for that regulation under § 1110.11(a)(6), a finished product certificate shall identify the applicable testing exclusion.
(d) Duplicative testing not required. Although finished product certificates must list each applicable rule, ban, standard, or regulation separately, finished product certifiers are not required to conduct the same third party test on each sample more than once when a rule references, or incorporates fully, another applicable consumer product safety rule or similar rule, ban, standard, or regulation under any other law enforced by the Commission with the same requirement.