RE>CE Mark -Reply 16/7/97
To Loh Weng Wah et al, On 15th July 6 countries were invited to join the EU being: Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Poland Slovenia In the negotiation stages that follows each of these economies and political structures are being internally re-structured to converge with the EU criteria for membership. The larger and stronger economies of Hungary,Czech Republic and Poland are front runners in the convergence process. On Certification and Testing The word from the UK DTI ( Department of Trade & Industry) on MRAs is that Bi-lateral arrangements had been offered in the past with little interest from the other side. Serious negotiations on recognition agreements might start in 1998. In the meantime the EU is working quickly on the CTE/MRA Directive 97/0149 a full draft is circulating among trade associations and interested parties. If the Directive is in force when the extra countries have joined then the mutual recognitions will be implemented within each country's National legislation. That is how the EU works. The Directives are what you have to do , each country implements it within their own legal system. Planning for recognition of CE marking for the newly invited candidate countries may be premature at this stage. I hope this is useful to you. Jerry Roberton Homologation Engineer ================================================================ = [email protected] = [email protected] = = = =+44-1293-600827 tel = =+44-1293-600701 fax = ==================EMEA HOMOLOGATION============================= -------------------------------------- List-Post: [email protected] Date: 15/7/97 4:39 pm To: Jerry Roberton From: Martin Rowe Are you sure? I thought that these countries were being admitted to NATO, which is not the EU. Martin Rowe Technical Editor Test & Measurement World voice 617-558-4426 fax 617-558-4470 e-mail [email protected] Host of the s.e.e.c Web site (me that is, not the magazine) http://world.std.com/~techbook/compliance_faq.html >>> "Loh Weng Wah (Mechanical Engr)" <[email protected]> 07/15/97 11:15am >>> Hi! All, Noticed that Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic will be the next enlargement to be considered as member of the European Union. Would appreciate if anyone can confirm that, the 3 above-mentioned states will recognise the CE Mark and no additional submission to their respective bodies for certification is necessary. If yes, when will be the effective date? Thanks in advance. Regards. Loh Weng Wah Creative Technology Ltd. ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by Mac2.net.com with ADMIN;15 Jul 1997 16:38:17 -0800 Received: from ruebert.ieee.org by unet.net.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA23681; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:35:56 -0700 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ruebert.ieee.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA06488; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:54:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:46:00 -0400 From: Martin Rowe <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: CE Mark -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Martin Rowe <[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]
