Fulfilling legal market requirements

Compliance is an obligatory principle for organizations these days. When these specifications refer to products, we speak of "product compliance". Technical writers can add significant value here.

Text by Jens-Uwe Heuer-James

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Fulfilling legal market requirements

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The past annual tekom conference took a detailed look at the topic product compliance from various perspectives. The importance and challenge of ensuring that products meet legal requirements was amply highlighted. If product compliance cannot be achieved, there is no guarantee for legally compliant technical documentation.

Covering products

The basic idea of compliance is implementing organizational processes, which ensure that legal requirements, market rules and ethical and moral specifications are adhered to. It is not about solving individual cases, but rather about processes and responsibilities that to some extent automatically ensure the compliance with rules and prevent problematic situations or enable quick and proper handling of such situations. It is thus possible to apply this thought process not only to the company in general, but also to the products manufactured by the ...