From: Bill Bryans ' IBM Canada Ltd., Program Manager, National Requirements ' Subject: ICES-003
Just a slight correction to the referenced 'Grace' period. All 'new' equipment tested and introduced to commerce after April 1, 1995 require a Product Label. The 'Grace' period to April 1, 1996 was negotiated by several members of Canadian industry and associations to allow manufactures time to generate and implement an Engineering Change to retrofit the affected equipment. The grace period was agreed to because few manufactures had been aware of the change before the effective date. We were also successful in grandfathering earlier products which originally included in the labelling requirement. Regards, Bill Bryans +----------------------------------------------------------------+ TEL:(905) 316-2281 Fax:-4220 T/L:886 Internal Mail:'A4/626/3600 TOROVM1(BRYANS) IBMMAIL(CAIBMZHQ) Internet:[email protected] +----------------------------------------------------------------+ *** Forwarding note from SMTP2 --IINUS1 06/03/96 22:05 *** ========================================================================= Received: from mail.ieee.org by vnet.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Mon, 03 Jun 96 22:03:32 EDT Received: by mail.ieee.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA06844 for emc-pstc-list; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:44:58 -0400 (EDT) List-Post: [email protected] Date: 03 Jun 96 15:42:23 EDT From: "Egon H. Varju" <[email protected]> To: "INTERNET:[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: IEEE <[email protected]> Subject: Re: New Canadian Marking Requirement? Message-ID: <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: "Egon H. Varju" <[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] > I have just been told that a standard, ICES-003 issue 02, has > been released which requires manufacturers to add yet another > marking to our digital products (if there is enough space). It's > not a symbol. It's an complete sentence. Actually, this is not a new requirement. If memory serves me, the original issue of ICES-003, Issue 2, dates back to around 1994. I recall that there was a grace period granted and that equipment marking was not mandatory until 1 April 1996. The latest edition of this standard (the newest one I have anyway) is ICES-003, Issue 2, Revision 1. If you want to get a copy of the latest issue, here are a couple of sources you can try: Communications Canada 300 Slater Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C8 Tel: (613) 990-4716 and/or, Canadian Government Publishing Centre Department of Supply and Services Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0S9 Tel: (613) 997-2560 By the way, as far as the required markings on the equipment, this should not present a major problem. You should be able to rewrite your present FCC label and include the fact that you comply with FCC Part 15 and also the Canadian ICES-003. Of course, you may need a French label if you ship to Quebec. Please note that these are Canadian Government requirements, not CSA. Regards, Egon H. Varju CSA Pacific Office
