>In response to John's comment/question, the answer could well be that the >Commission and it's national enforcing authorities do not want to be faced >with the possibility of having chase 2(or even 3 or more under a multiple >branding situation) companies over a non-compliance/safety situation. Thus - >as far as Directives compliance is concerned - they want only 1 company to >take the responsibility for each product.
But there's no way for them to ensure that. From what I can tell, there's nothing to stop several different different importers from importing the same product and independently issuing their own declarations for it. If the product is found to be defective, all the importers of the product will theoretically be responsible - although I have no idea how the authorities might trace them. Greg Galluccio www.productapprovals.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"
