See 1999/44/EC for warranty for consumer products.
85/374/EEC relates to defective products. Defective
products does not mean "not conforming to specifications," but
means a product that causes at least 500 Euros worth of property
damage (other than the loss of the product itself) or personal
injury. Some products that conform exactly to specifications
indeed do cause damage (and can be found defective); and some
products have gross deviation from their specifications yet never
cause property damage or personal injury.
85/374/EEC has been amended by 1999/34/EEC, requiring
member states to include primary agricultural products to the
list of products that can be defective.
While on the subject of general directives (not CE
marking), 92/59/EEC is a General Product Safety Directive for
products not specifically covered by any other Directive (e.g.
wind chimes, bird baths).
Regards,
Chuck Seyboldt
(207) 893-0352
(207) 838-4026 Cellular
(586) 461-6096 Facsimile
At 08:36 (-0400) on 03.05.14, [email protected] wrote:
> Ghery,
>
> You are right about Article 10.
>
> However Article 11 provides ...'that the rights conferred upon
> the injured person pursuant to this Directive shall be
> extinguished upon the expiry of a period of 10 years from the
> date on which the producer put into circulation the actual
> product which caused the damage, unless the injured person has
> in the meantime instituted proceedings against the producer.'
>
> David Sterner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pettit, Ghery [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 6:16 PM
> To: 'Carpentier Kristiaan'; 'Gerald Tammi'; 'emc-pstc'
> Subject: RE: CE directive
>
> All,
>
> As I read this document, I don't come up with the concept of a
> 3 year warrantee on the product. What I see is that the
> plaintiff (the person injured by the product) has 3 years from
> the time they figure out whose product it was that injured them
> to make their claim for damages. This isn't a 3 year warrantee
> that the product works, or you will fix it. This is a 3 year
> statute of limitations (as we would say in the US) during which
> time the person injured by the product must make a claim for
> compensation.
>
> A slightly different situation than - I bought my stereo 2
> years ago and it's broken. Please fix it.
>
> Or am I missing something here?
>
> Ghery Pettit
> Intel Corporation
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carpentier Kristiaan [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:31 PM
> To: 'Gerald Tammi'; 'emc-pstc'
> Subject: RE: CE directive
>
> Gerald,
> You can find all relevant info in Directive 85/374/EEC on :
> http://europa.eu.int/comm/consumers/policy/developments/prod_liab/pl01_en.pdf
> The period of warranty is not 2 but 3 years.
> Regards,
> kris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Tammi [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: dinsdag 13 mei 2003 22:08
> To: 'emc-pstc'
> Subject: CE directive
>
> Has anyone heard of the CE directive which mandates a "2 Year
> warrantee" on consumer products in the EU??
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