John, There are some products (like ballasts) that you cannot sell in Europe without the VDE Mark because all of your competitors have VDE and you would be left out of the market if you did not have VDE.
PETER S. MERGUERIAN Technical Director I.T.L. (Product Testing) Ltd. 26 Hacharoshet St., POB 211 Or Yehuda 60251, Israel Tel: 972-3-5339022 Fax: 972-3-5339019 Mobile: 972-54-838175 -----Original Message----- From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:09 AM To: Peter Merguerian Cc: '[email protected] ' Subject: Re: Stuck in Germany! <[email protected]>, Peter Merguerian <[email protected]> wrote: >Question: Anyone with a similar problem? To avoid problems like that, don't go to a German test-house. Traditional German thoroughness can work to your disadvantage. However, it appears that you may not have studied the safety standard carefully enough; some of what they say can be proved or disproved by reading it. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. Phone +44 (0)1268 747839 Fax +44 (0)1268 777124. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Why not call a vertically- applied manulo-pedally-operated quasi-planar chernozem-penetrating and excavating implement a SPADE? ------------------------------------------- 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,"

