I hear a very disturbing subject being openly discussed among several
of my European contacts. Distributors in Europe are saying that the
CE marking is a joke. That many companies (European Companies are
mentioned most often) are simply applying the CE marking to their
products without testing. Some say that many companies were initially
forced to do this because of the time and cost of testing and
redesign, but since there is very little checking going on the risk is
"Cost Effective".
IS THIS TRUE?
Has anyone heard of specific situations where a company or person has
been fined or jailed for fraudulently placing the CE marking on
non-compliant equipment? What is the penalty for non-compliance? What
is the penalty for fraud? Is anyone checking? Is anyone getting in
trouble?
I have been asked to obtain strong evidence to counter this opinion.
More or less to "put the fear of God" into distributors and reassure
our marketing and sales force that delaying product to market for the
CE mark is the right thing to do.
Can you help? Please post or email me anything you can.
Thanks,
Brian Kunde
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