I read in !emc-pstc that Koh <[email protected]> wrote (in <[email protected]>) about 'Voluntary EN standards', on Tue, 5 Feb 2002: > >Hi group, >My company had just OEM a speaker product from another company, I had >request them to provide the following EMI/EMC test report. >EN55013, EN55020 >EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3 >The speaker is mains connected/powered. > >They only provided EN55013 report and reply as below regarding the other >standards. > >"The standards mentioned (EN55020/A12/A13/14, EN61000-3-2, and >EN61000-3-3) >are for Immunity and Line Harmonics, which as per the standards are not >mandatory. These tests currently fall into the voluntary category (in >fact >for the Immunity test the pass criteria is defined by the submitter)
There MAY be no immunity requirements in EN55020 that apply to your product; the standard is so badly written that one cannot be entirely sure! But it APPLIES to the product and thus must be cited in the DOC. >Therefore the speaker is not required and was not submitted for testing >to these standards." > >Is this true? Absolutely not. Only A12 to EN55020 is not yet mandatory, but will be from August this year. A13 and A14 have been mandatory since August last year. EN61000-3-2 and -3 have been mandatory since 2001-01-01. You should have copies of the standard, so that you can see this information yourselves. > >If they provide the DofC to us stating only EN55013 and safety >(EN60065), can we sell the product in Europe? What possible problem will >we encounter? > Seizure of the product. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk After swimming across the Hellespont, I felt like a Hero. PLEASE do NOT copy news posts to me by E-MAIL! ------------------------------------------- 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: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
