This understanding (appended e-mail below) is correct AFAIK. I also checked out the website http://www.conformance.co.uk and they seem to agree with the notion it doesn't really mean anything *any more*. Here is an excerpt from their site ..
...................... "We quite often get asked what the 'CE' in the CE logo stands for. If anything it probably stands for Communitee Europeen being the French way of saying European Community. It could also represent Conformite Europeen. However, it is far from certain that whoever invented the mark (some bureaucrat in Brussels) had anything particular in mind other than to create a logo which would be universally recognised in the European Union, and given all the national prejudices about language in the different countries of the EU, even if the original inventor had something specific in mind, it was probably conveniently forgotten by the time it became 'official'. So, officially, it's just a logo and has no linguistic meaning. ................................... Best regards - Chris -----Original Message----- From: wmccaffe...@npeurope.com [SMTP:wmccaffe...@npeurope.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:44 PM To: Jody Leber Cc: 'emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org' Subject: Re: CE Mark Hi Jody According to sources within the European Commission the letters CE now have no meaning. Communitie European seems to have been assumed from the inception of the directives but now CE means CE. Slaint _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. ------------------------------------------- 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: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org 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.
