To add products go to the products page from the top menu, you will see the list of products you are allowed to view.
Click on "Add New Product" to create new product and fill the form.
The first part of the form is the product details:
Select the economic operator then select its role (manufacturer or importer) if the EO main location is outside GSO member states, then he can't be an importer.
HS code field has a list of HS Codes covered in GSO Technical Regulation, but you can type any 8 digit number outside from that list.
The second part is related to product models and families:
You can add as many models as you like, each model should be entered separately without any extra text.
You can enter a pattern with wildcard letters for a complete family of products and explain in the notes field the wildcard letters and their expected values.
If you have a very long list of models, click on "Add Multiple Models" and past the list of models, one in each line, we will break this text into multiple models, but any notes you have to enter manually one by one.
The last part of the form is the manufacturing and distributing locations:
Select any of the locations related to the main EO location selected at the beginning of the form. You can select the main location itself as a manufacturing location.
Distributing locations should be in GSO member countries only and it is optional right now.
Manufacturing locations are mandatory if the EO role is a manufacturer.
Click save product details, you will be forwarded to the product details page.
You can see that the product a GCTS generated, this will stay constant no matter how many certificates of conformity was issued for it.
Below the product basic details section, you will see a section for product models and another for product images.
Click on the button to upload a new image(s) and select the classification of the images, which should be one of the following:
- Front
- Side
- Rear
- Label
- Trademark
- Packaging
and with every image you need to specify the models that the images apply to, press control (Ctrl) button and click to select multiple models, you can press Ctrl+A to select all models.
In the model's table, you will see a column shows the image classes uploaded for each model.
Scroll down in the product details page to see the certificates section, from here you can create type approval conformity certificates for the product if the role of the EO is a manufacturer.
You can see also the notified body managing this product.
If the EO is managed by an NB all products for that NB will be auto-assigned to that NB.
If EO is not managed by NB then the EO user has to assign the product to an NB. EO user, in this case, can also un-assign the product from NB if no certificate is published, in-progress or suspended.