Hi All In response to Llan's mail:
So far there has been little activity in the area of Market Surveillance for the R&TTE Directive (certainly here in the UK) - although we have had to act for one client. In certain other Member States there has been a lot more activity especially in Germany and to a certain extent Sweden. This situation is about to change - see remarks at the end of this mail. A lot of the time actions get taken under the EMC-D and LVD especially for telecom terminal equipment where there are no longer any mandatory requirements for PSTN Access in Europe, (leaving only Essential Requirements for Safety & EMC). So a breach of the R&TTE Directive may not show up as such but still gets dealt with. In the UK the Surveillance Authority for TTE is the Trading Standards Authority who are over burdoned with other work and have had little time to pro-actively police the market, but are supposed to act on complaints. In certain parts of the country there have been some interesting and high profile court cases ( I presume designed to make an example of the bad boys). For Radio equipment the UK Surveillance Authority is the RA - an offshoot of the DTI, who are proactive and will deal very efficiently with breaches of the protection requirements of the R&TTE Directive and will act swiftly to deal with complaints. In other EU Member States radio is policed by the national S M A (Spectrum Management Authority). I understand from our Associates abroad that their SMAs are equally efficient at reacting to problems. I recently had to deal with ComReg in Eire (Southern Ireland) and found them to be very "on the ball" when it came to protection and management of the spectrum. They were also extremely helpful in advising on local issues. At present enforcement of the R&TTE Directive is a national issue for individual Member States, especially where the Radio Spectrum is concerned. National standards still prevail and (as an example) the UK RA invoke a national requirement known as MPT 1570 to police the spectrum and have powers under various (and some quite old) Acts of Parliament to enable them to proceed against miscreants! If a non compliant product is placed on the market and discovered by the Surveillance Authorities the Technical Dossier will be requested and checked. If serious breaches of the requirements of the R&TTE Directive are found to have taken place action is taken to remove the product from the market in all EU Member States. This has happened on a number of occasions. The EU are now developing Enforcement Standards that will enable all Member States to harmonise their requirements, although I am told that some do not want to give up their existing tougher standards. The view is that now that the R&TTE Directive has had time to bed down the time has come to ensure that enforcement is uniform, harmonised and happens! So expect a lot more to be happening in the future. Best regards, John Roche Patton & Associates (UK) Ltd. FINDON, West Sussex. BN14 0UH. UK GB. INTERNET: [email protected] Web Page: http//www.patton-assoc.com Telecommunications Consulting, Design and Type Approval/Certification for Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > Hi All > > Does anyone know the format and the status of the surveillance bodies which > were supposed to be places by the member states and by the EU for > enforcement of the RTTE directive. > > What happens when an RTTE non compliant product is placed on the market? > Does anyone care? > (For example an RTTE product which is declared under the LVD and the EMC > only. Or worse, when a product is being declared to comply with the RTTE > directive without compliance with the RTTE directive requirements of EMC, > safety, telecom and the construction file) > > Ilan > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Ilan Cohen > Technical Director, Safety & Telecom Divisions > I.T.L (PRODUCT TESTING) Ltd. > 26 Hacharoshet St, POB 211, Or Yehuda, Israel. > Tel 972-3-5339022, Fax 972-3-5339019 > [email protected], website: http://www.itl.co.il > ------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 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] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
