I read in !emc-pstc that Alan E Hutley <[email protected]> wrote (in <01a501c26624$cce34f20$0d01a8c0@alan>) about 'EMC prosecution UK' on Fri, 27 Sep 2002: >Can someone advise if the importer or manufacture takes the product to a >test house and asks to test to a certain standard is there any legal >obligation on the test house to advise of other implications or standards.
There is probably no *legal* requirement as such, but the test-house would be putting their professional indemnity insurance at risk if they did not advise the manufacturer with due diligence. Nevertheless, since last year (IIRC), a manufacturer can instruct a test-house to test only to certain clauses of a standard, and the test- house cannot insist on doing all the tests in the standard. It can only decline to accept the partial test work. This is because some test- houses, AIUI, were insisting on repeating tests that the manufacturer has either already done in-house or had determined were not necessary. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Interested in professional sound reinforcement and distribution? Then go to http://www.isce.org.uk 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: Ron Pickard: [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: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
