It has always been my understanding that the CE mark could be put on the equipment by a distributor in the EU as long as the distributor has the TIF. If this is truly the case then a product does not have to be CE marked to enter the country or how else would it get to the distributor. Products should not have to have the CE mark until they are placed on the Market. As for Demos, a company should be able to send a non marked product into the EU, example Demo units have been shipped from Ingr USA to Ingr Germany with no hassles and no marks. We also have Marketeers bound for shows who hand carry PC Workstations like luggage and lap tops for personal use with obvious intent to put them into service and they go through customs with no hassle.
These opinions are my own. Monty Griffith Product Safety Engineer Compliance Engineering Dept. Intergraph Computer Systems Phone (205) 730-6017 Fax (205) 730-6239 Pager (205) 720-0137 ---------- From: [email protected][SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 1997 7:12 AM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re[2]: Demos and Eval Units Now Require CE Mark??? Article 3 of the EMC Directive states, "...apparatus referred to in Article 2 may be placed on the market or taken into service only if it complies with the requirements laid down by this Directive when it is installed and maintained and when it used for the purposes for which it is intended." That "placed into service" statement has been interpreted to include any apparatus that is being used as intended. This would seem to include demos and may even be stretched into use at shows. As for "placed on the market", might this include demonstration at a show and/or taking orders. I don not find any exclusions for demos or shows listed in the EMC directive. This analysis is my own of course. Tom Whissel Senior Compliance Engineer Cabletron Systems, Inc. ---------------------------------Reply Separator -------------------- I don't have a copy of the EC EMC directive infront of me, but I'm fairly certain that an Article in that tome gives equipment destined for exhibitions a free run, and that may describe your Demo equipment. France is a proud and individualistic nation with a long history of unique scientific achievements and the world owes them much gratitude for such things as the Metric System and a singularly large statue situated at the entrance to New York's waterways. This individuality shows at the extremes of the national behavioural map as a particularly introspective view of the world which may seem to the Cosmopolitanly Challenged amongst us as slightly 'difficult' or 'protectionist', but I am sure that this is a distorted view. Europe has spent many years and expended much effort in finally getting all the European States to agree a common date for the time change used for Daylight Saving. Just as that was agreed, the French (for very good reasons which are extensively discussed in the French technical press) have had to pull out of the arrangement so painfully arrived at after so many years, and make entirely different plans. I'm sure they had no other choice, being uniquely placed so near the edge of the European land mass. Many years ago, I recall it was reported that in order to import Video Recorders into France, all had to be subject to the paperwork being arranged in one particular small office in the middle of France, rather than at the port of entry. This was a magnanimous gesture to speed things up, as the office in question was very small, and underworked, and so could concentrate on the task rather than making the applicants wait in a queue at a noisy and smelly port. 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