Paul, the EU Commission has encouraged CENELEC and CEN to adopt IEC/ISO standards whenever possible. CENELEC and CEN have agreements with the IEC that the former will not work on standards that are currently underway in the IEC unless there is an urgent need for a standard and the IEC cannot meet the needed date. In many if not most cases, proposed standards follow a parallel approval process in CENELEC/CEN and IEC. However, there are sometimes unique EU requirements that cause EU deviations to occur. Amendments to IEC documents may also follow this common approval process; but, again, EU deviations may and sometimes do occur.
Richard Woods ---------- From: Finn, Paul [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 4:14 PM To: 'emc-pstc' Subject: Standards Please bear with me on this one, this is not my strong point. I am under the impression that the EN standards are derived from thier IEC equivalent. Also for compliance with the EMC directive we test to the applicable EN standard. When the IEC version(s) are amended is it safe to assume that the equivalent EN will be amended? Alternatively is it possible the EN already includes the IEC amendments? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Paul Finn, Manager Test and Certification Group Panametrics Inc. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
