It can be confusing. Let's see if I can help. I will address the Directive
from the point of view of transmitters. The essential requirements relate to
three areas: safety, EMC and the radio spectrum.
For safety and EMC, you have a choice - continue to follow the procedures in
the LV and EMC Directives or follow the procedures in the RTTE Directive. If
you choose the RTTE Directive, you will need to use a Notified Body if and
only if the standards are not published in the OJ. Guess what? The safety
standard for human exposure is not published. Therefore, I recommend that
you choose to follow the procedures of the LVD. Under those procedures you
do not have to use a Notified Body.
Now to the radio spectrum. There are three possible paths
o It is a receiver product - follow Annex II and self declare
o A harmonized standard exists and it includes a test suite - follow
Annex III and self-declare
o A harmonized standard exists, but it does not include a test suite -
follow Annex III and use a Notified Body
o No spectrum standard exists - follow Annex IV and use a Notified
Body
Having followed the appropriate procedure, you may now issue the DoC and
apply the CE marking to the product, DoC and container. Is your operating
band harmonized? If so, proceed to market; otherwise, you must follow the
country notification procedure prior to marketing.
Good Luck! Richard Woods
Richard Woods
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From: Courtland Thomas [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:09 PM
To: emcpost
Subject: RTTE Directive
Hello group,
After reading through the RTTE Directive for the fifth or sixth
time, I am
still not clear on the use of the notified/competent body and
European
representative. It seems to me that I can get all my testing done,
whether
it be my own internal testing or using an outside lab, and then just
file
the test reports. There is some mention of the notified body and
representative, but not enough for me to feel it necessary to have
either. I
realize for equipment that doesn't fall under the RTTE Directive,
the
notified/competent body performs the assessment of the equipment to
the
particular standards, but isn't the intent of the RTTE Directive to
eliminate this requirement and place that burden on the
manufacturer? For
some reason I just don't see the requirement for those entities
after
reading through the directive. Maybe someone else can give me their
interpretation.
Thanks,
Courtland Thomas
Patton Electronics
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