Certainly not in the U.K. for equipment that may be sold to consumers. It is illegal to sell such equipment without a plug to BS1363 already fitted and with the correctly rated fuse in the plug. Here and in the rest of Europe the cord must have IEC colour coding.
Regards Nick Rouse ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:05 PM Subject: Power Plugs > > > In the EU is it legal to ship a product with an attached power cord with > "pig tail" leads and have the appropriate power plug attached by the > installer according to the installation instructions? > > Richard Woods > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Michael Garretson: [email protected] > Dave Heald [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
