Technical services
A technical service is an organization or a body that has been approved as a testing laboratory and that has also been notified to the EU and ECE respectively to carry out tests in connection with type approvals.
Notice or notification of technical service
A type approval procedure according to the EU regulations requires that the Member States notify the European Commission and the other Member States of the technical services that have been approved and of the testing procedures for which they have been approved.
Lists of approved technical services
EU: In the last paragraph under the heading Technical services on the European Commission's website for Technical harmonisation there is a list of technical services that each EU country has announced.
ECE: On UNECE's technical services website, you can see which technical services are designated by Sweden (E5) for the respective regulations. Then select Sweden in the drop-down list on the UNECE website that lists type-approval authorities and technical services to see the technical service's abbreviation (5A, 5B, 5C, etc.).