I have found that many OEM suppliers are not fully aware of EU compliance issues. Compliance with all ENs is voluntary. However, compliance with the standards provides a presumption of compliance with the essential requirements of the EMC Directive. Compliance with the essential requirements is mandatory. If standards are not applied, one must construct a Technical Construction File and submit it to a Competent Body for an opinion of conformity with the essential requirements. The compliance route to take - standards vs. TCF - is your choice. Assuming the product is in compliance with the standards, I recommend using the standards route.
Richard Woods Sensormatic Electronics Tyco International -----Original Message----- From: Koh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:22 AM To: EMC-PSTC Subject: Voluntary EN standards 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) Therefore the speaker is not required and was not submitted for testing to these standards." Is this true? Could anyone able to give some advice. 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? Regards Koh ------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------- 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.
