Hello George & Doug,
The CB Scheme, providing for the mutual acceptance of electrical safety
test data, among 30+ countries, covers 14+ product categories and is
certainly not limited to ITE.
An extension of the CB Scheme to provide for the mutual acceptance of EMC
test data has been in effect for more than a year. The list of
participants, at this juncture, is smaller than the list of those that
accept each other's safety test data.
Another expansion of the CB Scheme is called the FCS (Full Certification
Scheme). The intent of this program, (not quite yet implemented - to my
knowledge), is to provide a means for the sharing of the full
certification, not just sharing of the test data.
To keep up-to-date on these useful "Schemes", one should subscribe to the
"CB Bulletin" which is a bargain at less than US$100.00 per year. For
this fee you will receive 4 numbered volumes per year (some of them are
more than one issue) totalling more than 4" (10 cm) of material. This
publication details the participating countries and labs, sources for test
equipment, changes in rules, product areas covered by each participatant
and much-much more. The CB-Scheme also has a website (see note below).
Subscriptions can be purchased from your IEC National Certification Body
(NCB) or directly from the IEC.
Links for the IEC and the CB Scheme (and many others) can be found on the
Safety Link:
<www.safetylink.com>
Regards, Art Michael, Editor
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 geor...@lexmark.com wrote:
> The CB Scheme is a standard set of tests to IEC 950
> (now IEC 60950) requirements. It does not include
> "emissions, immunity, and telephone" requirements
> beyond IEC 60950. For example, the Nordic countries
> used to require both safety and EMC data for approval
> to use their "marks". As a result of the EU Directives,
> and use of the CE marking, the EMC data is no longer
> required as part of the approval process in these
> countries.
>
> Where EMC and health (e.g. chemical emissions) issues
> must be satisfied as well, they are in addition to the
> CB Scheme, not a part of it. Although EMC requirements
> are fairly consistent (CISPR 22), the requirements for
> health, recycling, manual content etc. are not.
>
> Thus far, there is no global reciprocal scheme that
> addresses EMC, health, telephone, etc.
>
> George R. Alspaugh
> Lexmark International
>
> ---------------------- Forwarded by George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark on 09/16/98
> 08:42 AM ---------------------------
>
> Please respond to Douglas Mckean
> <dmckean%corp.auspex....@interlock.lexmark.com>
>
> To: emc-pstc%majordomo.ieee....@interlock.lexmark.com
> cc: (bcc: George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark)
> bcc: George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark
> Subject: Re: CB SCHEME
>
>
>
>
> Well, this has been rather informative, but
> the CB scheme as I understand it is specific
> about exactly what test data is involved.
> Right now, it's mainly safety related
> testing, no?
>
> In other words, you could be testing a product
> in country A who participates in the CB Scheme.
> The tests may involve emissions, immunity, safety
> and telephone. Submitting your product to country
> B who also participates in the CB Scheme may mean
> that country B will accept ONLY the tests involved
> with safety and none of the other tests.
>
>
>
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