Andy, I have never heard of the term "certificate of incorporation". However, Article 4(2) and Annex IIB of the Machinery Directive (98/37/EC) reference a document that has been referred to as a "declaration of incorporation". That might be what your vendor was referring to. The wording in the directive indicates that it is for "machinery that is intended to be incorporated into machinery or assembled with other machinery...". I also have an example of this document (from a UL Seminar on CE Marking) if you want to take a look at it. It states that this type of machinery is not allowed to be put into operation until the end product machinery has been "properly evaluated". Let me know if you want me to e-mail you a copy of the example declaration or the applicable pages from the directive.
Hope this helps! Best regards, Mark A. Haynes Senior Product Safety Engineer D.L.S. Conformity Assessment, Inc. 1250 Peterson Drive Wheeling, IL 60090-6454 (847) 537-6400 (Ext. 157) Fax (847) 537-6488 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Veit, Andy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Certificate of Incoorporation??? Hello- Can someone explain to me what a "Certificate of Incorporation" is? One of our vendors wants to supply this in lieu of an "EU Declaration of Conformity" for CE compliance. Can someone enlighten me? Thanks again- -Andy Andrew Veit Systems Design Engineer MTS Systems Corp Ph: 919.677.2507 Fax: 919.677.2480 1001 Sheldon Drive Cary, NC 27513 ------------------------------------------- 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: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall," ------------------------------------------- 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: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
