Morocco regulates imported industrial products under Law No. 24-09 on the Safety of Products and Services. With the exception of a limited number of product categories subject to destination inspection at the Moroccan border, all other regulated industrial products must, in principle, undergo a pre-shipment conformity assessment in the country of export and obtain a CoC (Certificate of Conformity) before import clearance.
Conformity assessment bodies currently recognized by Morocco include SGS, Bureau Veritas, Intertek, and TÜV Rheinland, among others. The CoC is a key document for import clearance of the regulated goods concerned.
Product details for this shipment:
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Item |
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| Product | LED Panel Light |
| Brand / Manufacturer / Model / Quantity | To be provided by the client |
| Country of origin | China |
| Certification route | Route A |
Route A generally applies to first-time or infrequent exporters, or to suppliers that have not yet completed product registration. The assessment typically covers document review, test report review, and — depending on the outcome of a risk analysis — an on-site inspection or sample testing.
LED panel lights are mainly governed by two Moroccan ministerial orders (arrêtés):
The official Moroccan list of mandatory standards explicitly covers general luminaire safety, fixed luminaires, recessed luminaires, and road lighting luminaires as separate categories.
⚠️ Important note:
NM EN 60598-2-3, as listed in the client's documents, applies primarily to road and street lighting luminaires. If RD.PNL is an indoor ceiling-recessed panel light, the more common
combination is:NM EN 60598-1 + recessed luminaire standard NM 06.7.082
If the product is a surface-mounted fixed panel light, the likely combination is:
NM EN 60598-1 + fixed general-purpose luminaire standard NM 06.7.081
The applicable standards therefore cannot be determined from the English product name "LED Panel Light" alone. Before applying, confirm whether the product is recessed, surface-mounted, or intended for road lighting, and submit structural photos, the installation manual, and the specification sheet so that the conformity assessment body can finalize the scope of standards.
Also note that Moroccan authorities explicitly require the technical file to reference NM standards. A CE certificate alone, or a test report listing only EU EN standards, does not automatically satisfy Moroccan requirements. Where an NM standard is identical to its EN counterpart, prepare an NM / EN standards correlation table in advance.
1. Luminaire safety test report
2. LED driver / power supply safety report
3. EMC test report
Reports should preferably be issued by laboratories accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 with a scope covering the relevant standards. SGS's Morocco scheme documentation likewise cites reports from ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratories under the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement as a primary basis for acceptance.
Consistency requirement: the tested model, product photos, brand, wattage, driver model, and critical components must fully cover the goods actually being shipped.
The luminaire body or nameplate should include at minimum:
The CMIM mark must be legible, visible, and durable, with the vertical height of the letter "C" in principle no less than 6 mm. It should normally be applied to the product itself; only where the nature or size of the product genuinely does not allow this may it be placed on the packaging and accompanying documents instead.
Language: user-facing information must at minimum be provided in Arabic. The technical file may be in Arabic, French, or English, but warnings, installation instructions, and consumer information must be available in Arabic.
Retail box / sales packaging — recommended markings
Outer carton — recommended markings
The brand, model, and wattage must be fully consistent across the nameplate, retail box, instruction manual, test reports, commercial invoice, and packing list.
The Moroccan technical file should additionally contain a product description, design and manufacturing drawings, a parts and materials list, a list of applicable standards, risk-control notes, design calculations, and internal inspection results. Such documentation should in principle be retained for 10 years.
Moroccan authorities describe import inspection as four stages: document review, physical inspection, sampling, and market entry. Physical verification covers quantity, brand, country of origin, conformity marking, packaging, labelling, and the condition of the goods. Inspectors typically focus on:
We recommend running a self-check against this list after production is complete but before container stuffing, then initiating the application and inspection arrangements. This significantly reduces the risk of document supplements, re-inspection, and port detention.
Cم / CMIM was aligned by introducing "CMIM conformity mark (Cم)" at first mention and using "CMIM" thereafter; "签证机构" was replaced with "conformity assessment body".