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: r...@twn.tuv.com [mailto:r...@twn.tuv.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 5:34 PM To: Kevin Newland Cc: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org 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 <kevin_newl...@yahoo.com> on 03/16/2000 06:59:11 AM Please respond to Kevin Newland <kevin_newl...@yahoo.com> To: "Maxwell, Chris" <chr...@gnlp.com>, "'EMC-PSTC Internet Forum'" <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> 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 --- "Maxwell, Chris" <chr...@gnlp.com> wrote: > > Our sales people in Russia have started the process > of "Certifying" our > equipment to sell in Russia. The two agencies that > they are working with > are "Gosstandart" and the "Ministry of > Communication". > > According to them, the certification will consist of > an inspection of all of > our existing Compliance Documentation including > ISO-9000 certification, EMC > Test Data (for the products of interest), Safety > Test Data (for the products > of interest), Environmental Test Data including > heat, frost, moisture, > vibration, and blow (what is that?) along with other > inspections of our > calibration equipment and methods. We are also > being asked to pay for a > trip to the US for 3 people from the Ministry of > Communication and > Gosstandart (6 people total) for 7 days each. > > The total is a staggering $44,000 (either cash or > wire transfer). Note > that all of the actions being performed for this are > "inspections" of > existing documentation, not actual testing. So in > the end, they will > decide to certify our products based upon existing > documentation, testing... > I have never experienced this before. It appears to > be a great deal of > expense for not much substance. Is this typical? > Has anybody else out > there certified products with these agencies? > > By the way, we typically classify our product as > "light industrial test and > measurement equipment" and already have solid > testing and documentation to > to EN 61326-1 (EMC), EN 61010-1 (Safety) and EN > 60825-1 (Laser Safety). > Does this give us any kind of out? > > Chris Maxwell, Design Engineer > GN Nettest Optical Division > 109 N. 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