For those of you whose product is "machinery", Article 2 of the Machinery Directive http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/1998/en_398L0037.html contains the following: --- "3. At trade fairs, exhibitions, demonstrations, etc., Member States shall not prevent the showing of machinery or safety components which do not conform to the provisions of this Directive, provided that a visible sign clearly indicates that such machinery or safety components do not conform and that they are not for sale until they have been brought into conformity by the manufacturer or his authorized representative established in the Community. During demonstrations, adequate safety measures shall be taken to ensure the protection of persons." --- You might reasonably argue with customs that if they prevent you importing it, they are preventing you from showing it.
Although clearly a useful exemption, note that you & your employees (normally) retain ownership, control, custody, supervision, etc. at a trade show; which is very different from a Beta site, where you may (or may not) retain ownership, but the customer is operating the machinery. Also, I'm not sure what you are supposed to do about EMC & LVD compliance, if they also apply to your machine. (I think this came up before on this listserv, might be worth us all reading the archives!) regards, glyn Glyn Garside (Director, Engineering Services) mailto:[email protected] Adept Technology Inc, 150 Rose Orchard Way, San Jose, CA 95134, USA http://www.adept.com TEL +1(408)434-5057 FAX +1(408)434-5163 Robots & motion controls; Robot, CMM, NC & assembly simulation. -----Original Message----- From: Grant, Tania (Tania) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 09:59 To: [email protected]; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: French Customs demand EC Declaration! Thomas, Read the fine print in the EMC Directive regarding "placing [equipment] on the market" and "putting it into service." You also might want to have your legal representative take a look. I read that providing 'samples' to potential customers is "placing [equipment] on the market" but not "putting it into service." There is another DRAFT directive that seems to take into account equipment still in the final design stages that is sent to potential customers to undergo further testing with the customer's equipment, i.e., sometimes called BETA. However, that is for EMC. The LVD safety directive does not seem to make any provisions for any BETA systems. If anyone has any more insight into this, I would be very much interested in hearing about this. Tania Grant, Lucent Technologies, Octel Messaging Division [email protected] ---------- From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 1:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: French Customs demand EC Declaration! Dear All, the process to import production machines into the EU seems clear, but have you considered the problem of samples, too ? Usually, samples are used for evaluation purposes and cannot often be marked with CE because the CE compliance tests should be done at least with the final version. Therefore, no CE-Declaration can be issued and the customs may stop these samples at the border (we experienced the same problems with the French customs). How do you handle sample shimpments into the EU ? Kind regards Andreas Thomas Toshiba Europe GmbH --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
