Hi Ghery.
You wrote:
<< The law is 89/336/EEC, the EMC Directive (or as I like to call it, the EMC
Professional Employment Act of 1989). It lays down, as you note, the
essential requirement that a product not cause undue interference and that
it operate as intended in its itended environment. No more, no less. No
limits for emissions are provided in the EMC Directive. >>
The Euro Directive was born of the Treat of Rome, itself born in 1972, with
the express purpose of removing barriers to trade. If you read the
Directive, in the first few pages I think (from memory) that it mentions
'Free trade', 'removal of barriers to trade', 'etc. etc about ten times, but
in just about the whole of the document it doesn't mention Interference or
crackling radios at all.
The Directive is there to ensure that no Euro state can steal a lead on
another by selling goods that don't have the same technical performance,
i.e. that are cheaper! By doing what the Directive requires, and applying
the CE mark, it simply allows the bureacrats to let the goods in without let
or hindrance so that they can be traded on an equal footing with locally
produced goods. Trade = peace, which isn't a bad thing... I suspect that
the Euro MP's wouldn't know an EMC if it fell on their foot, but they voted
it in, as it was something that could be measured and defined relatively
easily and could therefore be given political force.
The technical standards, CISPR etc. seem to be quite arbitary in places. For
instance, the sudden cessation of conducted emissions and the equally sudden
beginning or radiated emissions at 30MHz is surely a bit convenient, tho' it
has to be said it is not entirely impractical.
No, I reckon that the EMC Directive is not anything to do with EMC, but
another tool by which the Euro Bureacrats can merge Europe into this Super
State so feared by the Brits and so revered by the Galls.
There, a bit of unsolicited trite bigotry, and it isn't even Friday.
Chris Dupres
Surrey, UK.
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