>From the document " Report of a meeting of the Standing Committee set up under Article 6.2 of the Directive 89/392/EEC" dated 25-26 May, 10 June and 13 July 1994. The copy I have is marked DRAFT all over it so this may not be the official word. I quote:
PQ.53 If a manufacturer installs machinery on the premises of a potential customer for him to evaluate it but the machinery is not sold and remains the property of the manufacturer, does it have to bear the CE marking and meet the other requirements applicable to it? PA.53 This is a typical case because as long as the machinery remains the property of the manufacturer and as long as the operators are the manufacturer's employees the machinery has not been placed on the market; as soon as the satisfied customer takes delivery the machinery has to comply with the Directive, bear the CE marking, etc. The manufacturer has to make sure that a notice is affixed in the vicinity saying that the machinery is not in conformity with the Directive (Article 2(3)). The situation is different if the manufacturer has supplied the machinery for evaluation by the potential customer. In this case, the machinery has to be considered as placed on the market (handed over provisionally but handed over all the same) and placed in service in accordance with Article 2(2) and must be entirely in conformity with the Directive. Hope this help some. Scott [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 12:59 PM 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).
