Hi Vic:
You have mentioned the CTE directive and that is a subject that has
had no mention of lately.
I attended the CommEd conference on March 26th - 28th and the main
topic was supposed to be the CTE directive. Well, we received little
to no information! Piero Ravaioli, Head of Division DG XIII,
addressed the delegates but did not say much. We were expecting the
CTE directive to be talked about in detail and it simply was not
ready. Did your conference go any better? I would be interested in
finding out any details you, or anyone else, might have picked up.
About the only information we received was that the CTE directive
should (who knows) open up the self-declaration route to approvals
even more. As you can now self declare to safety and EMC, you may be
able to do the same for some/all of the telecom portion of the
requirements.
Looking forward to some feedback.
Best Regards, Mike.
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Subject: Re: Who can apply the CE Mark?
Author: "Victor L. Boersma" <[email protected]> at Internet
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Date: 4/30/96 12:23 AM
I attended a conference in Amsterdam on March 18th (had to dump my
poor wife in a motel on Cocoa Beach for the week-end to do it) where
Mr. Joergen Richter of DG XIII introduced a draft for the new
Connected Telecommunications Directive (CTE). The gist of the
story is that the Commission is having a change of heart on how to
best regulate. The point was made repeatedly that under the current
system they can't track the original parties that made the
declaration. They want to go even so far that they want the notified
bodies to hold the files WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE FILES and require
that the EC mark comes with the number of the notified body that
holds the files, even for a Module A conformity assessment. (Needless
to say, the Notified Bodies were less than enthralled with that
notion). The fun is only beginning.
Regards,
Vic
