Dear ??? Perhaps "emerging countries" is not the best terminology. "Emerging standards" may be more appropriate. First of all, there is the Commonwealth of Independent States, formerly the USSR. For some 50 years under Communism these countries had little dealings with the Western world, but are all now at some point in developing standards to participate in the global market. Russia, Belarus, etc.
Then there are the former Soviet Bloc countries, sometimes called Eastern Europe, such as Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, etc. Many already have well developed approval processes, but some, such as Poland, can be very difficult to completely satisfy at times. The good news here is that several of these very much want to join the European Union, and may even accept the CE marking in the near future prior to membership. Japan has long been a well developed nation, but has no product safety certification requirements for typical ITE product, and only voluntary (VCCI) requirements for EMC. Meanwhile, China and Taiwan have relatively recent certification requirements for ITE. Argentina only recently began to require IRAM certification for ITE. The bad news is that there are still many countries that do not now have certification requirements, but will probably adopt some within the next decade. If you don't like change, Product Safety and EMC are the wrong fields to be in at this time. George Alspaugh ---------------------- Forwarded by George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark on 03/22/2000 09:04 AM --------------------------- rc%[email protected] on 03/21/2000 08:21:01 PM Please respond to rc%[email protected] To: grassc%[email protected] cc: emc-pstc%[email protected] (bcc: George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark) Subject: Certification of Products and other emerging countries Dear Charles, REGARDING: ......the emerging countries have been very erratic in the implementation and enforcement of EMC legislation....... The emerging countries are quite numerous, can you come up with some actual examples? "Grasso, Charles (Chaz)" <[email protected]> on 03/22/2000 02:43:36 AM To: Rene Charton/TUV-Twn@TUV-Twn, Kevin Newland <[email protected]> cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Russian Certification of Products and other countries It has been my experience that - with the exception of the EU and Aus/Nz - the emerging countries have been very erratic in the implementation and enforcement of EMC legislation. Rene, I must disagree with your comment regarding scheduled implmentations. Putting incomplete EMC enforcement/legislation in to force on schedule is NOT good planning. Kudos to the EMC Framework - that EMC legislation was advertised and compliance methods available well before the required date. If only it were true universally... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 5:34 PM To: Kevin Newland Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Russian Certification of Products and other countries What about Japan, Australia&NewZealand, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico....... In many Asian Countries (Taiwan, China, Korea, Hongkong.........) rules are just being set up. This implies that there are frequent changes, but not on daily basis. And changes are implemented according to a schedule. Can you show me a similar schedule for the "stock exchange"? If you can, I will change my Job immediately. Rene Charton Kevin Newland <[email protected]> on 03/16/2000 06:59:11 AM Please respond to Kevin Newland <[email protected]> To: "Maxwell, Chris" <[email protected]>, "'EMC-PSTC Internet Forum'" <[email protected]> cc: (bcc: Rene Charton/TUV-Twn) Subject: Re: Russian Certification of Products Chris, Just remember that with the exception of Western European countries,USA and Canada, the rest of the world (without being rude) have not really have a solid rule for anything. These countries rules and regulation changes daily (just like stock exchange) without any notice or explanation). This is sadly the real life and we live in it. Thanks Kevin ------------------------------------------- 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]
