Hello forum, Donning my compliance anorak for a second - Article 1 (4) of 95/54 states:
"This directive shall constitute a "specific directive" for the purposes of Article 2 (2) of council directive 89/336/EEC with effect from 1st January 1996" however, ESA's are defined as "devices intended to be part of a vehicle" If it's marketed for vehicular use it should comply with 95/54. That said, the beauty of the type approval regime is that, at the end of the day, it's up to the relevant approval authority (who are likely to be as biased in favour of 95/54 as a Notified Body is of 89/336 :-) By way of a useful example, we recently tested a number of mobile radios and hand portable radios for compliance to 95/54. The VCA (UK competent authority) required that we approve the mobiles and the car kits for the hand portables (i.e. the mobiles were tested, approved and labelled - the car kits were approved and labelled having been tested with a portable radio - the portable radios themselves did not require type approval). In short, if your colleagues product plugs into an off the shelf charger he'll probably get away with it. One other point of interest - the VCA also required that we test the radios in receive mode (presumably on the grounds that they couldn't possibly comply with the emissions limits in transmit mode, as 95/54 doesn't provide an exclusion band for RF devices). A requirement that though technically eyebrow raising, was met with a distinct lack of protest from the manufacturers. Regards, Dave Graham RCC Ltd. 37 High Street, Manea, March, Cambs, PE15 0JD, UK T: 01354 688310 M: 07764 199768 F: 0870 1319036 ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex McNeil To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 4:09 PM Subject: RE: ESAs certification to 95/54/EC Hi Forum, With regards to a previous topic. I recently had an email from my colleague in France with regards a product that has not primarily been designed for in-vehicle use even although it could be if the customer so wishes via the cigarette lighter supply (I have removed the name of the actual test house): " A French automotive test house working with a notified body, declare that as the product is not primarily intended to be used in a vehicle then it does not have to be compliant with 95/54/EC directives but only with 89/336/EC". Does the forum agree with this statement? and therefore all the relavent Notified Bodies of the EU should assume the same decision? Kind Regards Alex McNeil Principal Engineer Tel: +44 (0)131 479 8375 Fax: +44 (0)131 479 8321 email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Fang Han [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 6:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: ESAs certification to 95/54/EC Hi Colleagues, It looks like all products for vehicle application, even they have been certified to EMC Directive or R&TTE Directive, must be certified to 95/54/EC (vehicle EMC directive) before Oct 1, 2002. It seems to me that the certification route for vehicle EMC directive is different with EMC directive or RTTE directive certification. I am looking for an accredited lab/body that is authorized to certify ESAs products to 95/54/EC. I wonder if all these labs/bodies are located in Europe or there are some in USA. I understand that these labs/bodies should be authorized by the Ministry of Transportation of a EU member state. A certification done by such a lab will be accepted by all other EU member states. I appreciate it very much if someone familiar with this can shed some light. Thanks a lot, Fang
