The Commission had a meeting about 3 weeks ago about new draft GUIDELINES on the application of the EMC directive.
Used Equipment : Equipment shipped to the CE before 1996 will stay out of the scope of the directive even if it is moved within the EC (sold to another customer). Equipment shipped to a customer outside the EC prior to 1/1/96 and sold as used equipment to a customer within the CE after 1/1/1996 need to be in line with the EMC directive. Upgrades : If the equipment is upgraded or expanded with extra or new boards than those new boards need to comply with the EMC directive. If no new designed boards exists than it is allowed to expand/upgrade the existing equipment with boards designed prior to 1/1/96 and without a CE label. This is what I understood from a discussion with one of the participants to that meeting. The whole text is still not finished and it will still take some time before the new guidelines will be published. Edgard VANGEEL [email protected] 'Opinions expressed are personal, not necessarily Corporate' At 03:38 PM 11/20/96 -0000, you wrote: >Can anyone help with the following EMC question? > >It concerns equipment shipped to a customer prior to 1996 [ not EMC >tested and not expected to comply ]. > >We want to upgrade the equipment on the some customers' sites to add new >functions.This will involve adding some new PCBs & a new wiring loom . >The equipment is still not expected to comply with EMC regs. Is this >acceptable? > >If, instead of doing the work on the customers site, we brought it back >to our factory and did the same work here. Would this be acceptable? > >If, to save the customer down time, we modified a similar piece of >equipment in our factory and then swapped it for the customer's >instrument. Would this be acceptable? Does it depend where the equipment >we modify comes from ?(i.e. It could be unsold factory stock or could >have been returned from a (different) customer). > >Appreciate any help! >Philip Tatterton > >
