Dan, Very briefly, in terms of technical requirements - NONE. Australia and New Zealand both require most IT&T products comply with AS/NZS 3548 (joint Aust/NZ standard) or CISPR 22 or EN 55022. In terms of compliance actions and records required there is some difference.
Australia requires similar actions and records as that of Europe ie establish product Compliance Folder [CF] and include: a) signed Australian Declaration of Conformity (DoC) [must be signed by person in Australia and kept in CF at all times]; and b) product description plus photos etc (or pointers to them - ie may be held overseas); c) EMC test report to one of the 3 standards mentioned above (or pointers to it - ie may be held overseas). Once the above has been completed, label the product with the C-Tick mark and supplier ID. Before placing mark on any product the organisation must be registered with the ACA in Australia to use mark. ACA is Australian regulator - http://www.aca.gov.au NZ, requires you to submit a signed EMC DoC to the NZ Ministry of Commerce (MoC) . The major differences to the Australian process is: a) the DoC can be signed by an overseas person; b) there is a submission fee associated with every DoC submitted. (approx NZ$170 is typical for non NZ based organizations); c) no product Compliance Folder is required to be established and no test report is required to be held; Labelling product for compliance is not mandatory in NZ but enthusiastically encouraged by the NZ MoC (C-Tick is accepted - must be registered with MoC in NZ to use before placing mark on any product). NZ MoC is NZ regulator - http://www.moc.govt.nz NOTE: An MRA (Mutual Recognition Agreement) between Australia and NZ on 1 Jun 2000 and from that time there will be common process and records requirements as well as common technical requirements. In addition, once all the necessary actions are performed in either country to comply no further actions will be required for compliance in the other country. If you need more detail please contact me directly. Please see my contact details at the very bottom of the email. Best regards, Kevin > > > Greetings, > > Does anyone know what the differences there are between the New Zealand and > Australian EMC regulations? I know they are trying to harmonize but if > someone could either tell me or point me to a web page it would certainly be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dan > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Daniel W. Biggs > Test Engineer > HW Development Process > Engineering Services > daniel.bi...@cho.ge.com > > > GE Fanuc Automation > PO Box 8106 > Charlottesville, VA 22906 > PH: (804) 978-6946 > Fax: (804) 978-5588 > > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, > jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or > roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). > > > > > > > ----------------------- Internet Header -------------------------------- > Sender: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org > Received: from ruebert.ieee.org (ruebert.ieee.org [199.172.136.3]) > by hpamgaab.compuserve.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/HP-1.8) with ESMTP id OAA20420; > Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:43:40 -0400 (EDT) > Received: by ruebert.ieee.org (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) > id OAA03485; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:39:06 -0400 (EDT) > Message-ID: <6cde92ac7a77d211b86c00805fea2ac25b2...@vacho2misge.cho.ge.com> > From: "Biggs, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, NA)" <bigg...@gemischova.ge.com> > To: "'EMC forum'" <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> > Subject: Australia vs. New Zealand > Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:37:42 -0400 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Sender: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: "Biggs, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, NA)" <bigg...@gemischova.ge.com> > X-Resent-To: Multiple Recipients <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> > X-Listname: emc-pstc > X-Info: Help requests to emc-pstc-requ...@majordomo.ieee.org > X-Info: [Un]Subscribe requests to majord...@majordomo.ieee.org > X-Moderator-Address: emc-pstc-appro...@majordomo.ieee.org > > Best regards, Kevin Richardson Stanimore Pty Limited (Technology Requirements Specialists) Ph: 02-4329-4070 Fax: 02-4328-5639 Int'l +61-2-432x-xxxx Email: k...@compuserve.com (Internet) kevin.richard...@ieee.org (Alternate Internet #1) k...@technologist.com (Alternate Internet #2) 100356,374 (Compuserve) --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
