George,
Further to what John has stated, I believe that European "EN" standards are likely be inappropriate for application in Australia, where AS/NZS standards are applied. I say this because Australia does have specific national deviations and special conditions separate from those of European or other countries. A check of the CB Bulletin (CB-105A) in association with IEC60950:1999 or AS/NZS60950:2000 would be required. But, as the xxx60950 series of standards are being replaced with the xxx60950-1 series of standards, it may be prudent to investigate to xxx60950-1 to which I believe most safety agencies are now investigating. However, IMHO it may be prudent to also utilize the CB Scheme. Also, it is unclear from your orignal posting if your product has telecom features, but being a laptop computer I would guess that a modem (and possibly an ethernet) port resides in the laptop. As such, conformance to the applicable TS and/or ACIF standards would be required for Australia resulting in the A-tick marking requirements being implementented. You may be already aware of this, but I thought it was worth mentioning. I hope this helps. Best regards, Ron Pickard [email protected] [email protected] Sent by: To: [email protected] owner-emc-pstc@majordo cc: mo.ieee.org Subject: Re: Australian DOW and 60950 3rd ed. 01/28/2004 02:26 AM Please respond to jmw I read in !emc-pstc that George Smith <[email protected]> wrote (in <[email protected]>) about 'Australian DOW and 60950 3rd ed.' on Tue, 27 Jan 2004: > Does anyone have experience with this? > > A local expert has informed me that one of my products may need to > be updated to EN60950 3rd. > ed. for sale in Australia. The product > is a laptop computer. > > Here is the question- > since the product has been selling in Australia for at least 12 > months, and > sine we have had no "form factor" or AC adapter changes, and > since we are compliant to EN60950 2nd ed.... > > is there some "grandfathering" clause or consideration that we > can use to keep from going through the update to 3rd ed.? In Europe, an amendment or new edition of an EN includes a 'dow' (date of withdrawal) for the previous (or unamended) edition. This is almost always the same date as the official 'docopocoss' - date of cessation of presumption of conformity of the superseded standard. Incidentally, ENs have *dates*, not edition numbers; IEC standards have both. You might find that you would do better to go to the latest version - EN 60950-1:2001, if you have to make any changes at all. It may be easier to meet. I don't know how they deal with this matter in Australia, but it's the sort of thing that you can ask the regulatory authority directly and get a definitive answer. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. The good news is that nothing is compulsory. The bad news is that everything is prohibited. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
