Hi John, Officially this type of "apparatus" does not qualify for ce marking due to the reasons you gave. Commercial reasons make that most product of this type in Europe ARE ce marked. To my knowledge none was prosecuted for illegal use of the ce mark. What the ce mark implies is thet you declare that your product complies with essential safety requirements in normal use and foreseeable misuse, as well as protects the radio spectrum.
Basically all you need to declare compliance is to do an assesment of it's eligibility for ce marking according to the directive's most probable: the EMC directive and the LVD directive. Both refer to standards, that will list requirements that a passive device (unless high voltages are involved) will comply to due to it's physical properties. No tests required thus. [blatant ad: don't read] We do such assignments regularly, at an almost symbolic fee. You may adhere the ce mark to your product and prevent most confusion at customs, customers and the retail network. If you believe we may be helpfull contact me at g.grem...@cetest.nl or hit reply (not reply all !) [end of ad] Regards, Gert Gremmen ce-test, qualified testing -----Original Message----- From: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of Tyra, John Sent: dinsdag 17 september 2002 18:48 To: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: CE Marking for Passive speakers Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone out there can provide me with help in determining whether passive speakers and headphones are required to be CE-Marked for entry into the EU? We have an old document from BAPT in Germany which implies that passive speakers are required to be CE Marked but this does not seem to make sense to me since there are no active components in the products and we would be declaring compliance by default. I have the same concern for Headphones. Also does anyone have a good contact person in the EU possibly with the European Commission they could share I would like to try to get some kind of official ruling on this issue. While it would be simple to CE-Mark our passive speaker products there are costs involved so I would prefer not to do it if it is not required. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Best regards, John John Tyra Design Assurance Engineering, Product Safety & Regulatory Manager Bose Corporation The Mountain, M.S.-450 Framingham, MA 01701-9168 508-766-1502 Phone 508-766-1145 Fax john_t...@bose.com ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com 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: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com 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: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
