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).
