Some time ago Brian Kunde wrote about Australia accepting IEC CB reports. I must apologize firstly that I have taken this long to respond. I have been overseas for a week.
Brian is correct. It is possible to use an IEC CB report, gained from an IEC CB accredited test house. Such reports can only be accepted however by the IEC CB recognised labs in Australia. They can not be authorized/accepted by all labs in Australia. There are presently two labs in Australia and one in New Zealand. such labs, when presented with a report from another (overseas) CB accredited lab would examine the report to ensure all Australian requirements (deviations or variations to the relevant internationl standard) were in fact tested and then produce a report under their letterhead stating compliance. Regards, Kevin Kevin Richardson Ph: 043-29-4070 Stanimore Pty Limited Fax: 043-28-5639 "The Technology Requirements Specialists" Int'l: +61-43-xx-xxxx Email: Internet: [email protected] Compuserve: 100356,374 ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Brian Kunde, INTERNET:[email protected] TO: EMC-PSTC, INTERNET:[email protected] DATE: 13/06/96 11:11 AM RE: Re: Australian Requirements Sender: [email protected] Received: from mail.ieee.org (rab.ieee.org [140.98.2.3]) by dub-img-1.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id KAA14334; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:38:05 -0400 Received: by mail.ieee.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA24076 for emc-pstc-list; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:37:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:39:35 -0400 From: Brian Kunde <[email protected]> Organization: LECO Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: EMC-PSTC <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Australian Requirements References: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Brian Kunde <[email protected]> X-Resent-To: Multiple Recipients <[email protected]> X-Listname: emc-pstc X-List-Description: Product Safety Tech. Committee, EMC Society X-Info: Help requests to [email protected] X-Info: [Un]Subscribe requests to [email protected] X-Moderator-Address: [email protected] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An additional method to obtain safety approval in Australia (if it is sti= ll allowed) and=20 other countries that we did when I worked for Zenith Data Systems was to = obtain a =93CB=94=20 Test Report and Certificate based on the appropriate IEC version of the s= tandard (for IT=20 equipment it is IEC950). We obtained this from NEMKO, but now I understa= nd you can get=20 CB R&C in North America from UL, ETL, CSA, etc. =20 The purpose of the =93CB=94 scheme is so testing can be done at one lab a= nd the test results=20 would have to be excepted by other labs, though a review of the product m= ay be=20 requested. For Australia, we would send our CB R&C to a company representative in A= ustralia. He=20 would take it with any additional information to the proper authorities. = At this point=20 I understand it is a paperwork thing and only takes a few weeks to obtain= an approval. =20 I believe this method is still used. Maybe others could comment on their= experience=20 with using the CB scheme. Brian Kunde LECO Corp.
