Piotr, There has been at least one person from Poland participating in the development of IEC 60950-1 for many years now. In fact, a couple of years back we held one of our meetings in Warsaw. Of course, IEC 60950 is a very large standard and so it takes a lot of translation effort - which is why many EU Member States take the option of putting just a local language cover on one of the three "official language" versions of the EN (English, French & German).
If you are just getting to grips with EN 60950 and TNV Circuits, SELV Circuits etc. then I recommend that you download a copy of EG 201 212 from the ETSI web site. http://www.etsi.org/services_products/freestandard/home.htm <http://pda.etsi.org/pda/home.asp?wki_id=jDzQupPojm_1,44Mg3qn> Direct link (I hope)> http://pda.etsi.org/pda/home.asp?wki_id=jDzQupPojm_1,44Mg3qn There is a later and slightly more updated version of the above available from the IEC, but for what you need the above is probably sufficient and has the advantage of being FREE. What you have been told about CE marking seems very strange and I suggest that you ask again. It is certainly permitted for products made outside the EU to carry the CE marking and I have seen many such products during visits to the USA and Japan for instance - despite the fact that the marking has no legal significance in those countries. Probably you have many electrical products on sale in Poland coming from both inside the existing EU, and outside it too, on sale in Poland. So why a product made in Poland and sold in Poland MUST NOT carry the CE marking, as I understand you are saying, seems illogical. Of course, until the accession date the CE marking will have no legal significance in Poland - but that's an entirely different matter. If your device is powered only from 12V (be it internal batteries or an external power converter) [and has no other I/O operating at above 50Vac, 75Vdc] then your product falls outside the LVD and so it is not necessary to CE mark the product to that directive nor mention the LVD on your Declaration of Conformity. However, it may be that your product either contains a radio transmitter or connects to the telecommunications network - in which case the Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (RTTED) applies. Irrespective of the operating voltage you could sill have safety problems caused by different interconnected equipment being in different equipotential zones within the same building or building campus. EG 201 212 provides some explanation that may help. However, at the end of the day it is your product and your call. At the very least you should consider placing appropriate warnings in your installation manual. By the way, when you have some free time after 1/5/2004 and you want to find out more about EU Directives then you could take a look at my web site. Best regards, Richard Hughes Safety Answers Ltd. www.safetyanswers.ltd.uk In a message dated 02/06/2004 22:29:37 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Richard, You are right. I consider only EMC. The reason: We join EU at 1.05.2004. I was sure, that all products we put on the market in past we will be allowed to still sell (at least in Poland). I understood that we must do everything to have CE before putting a new product on the market, when we will be in EU. A week ago I was told (by euro-info centrum in Poland), that it is not true, that putting on the market is not understand as for the product type, but as for each device itself. So I have 40 device types and 3 months. The most stupid in it is that until Poland is in EU no body in Poland can be allowed to mark its product with CE (the right is reserved for EU countries), and when Poland is in EU everything must be with CE (no transformation periods in that subject). I am waiting for the night 30.04 to 1.05. Will be heavy. The next reason. EMC standards I have since 5 months. For EN 60950-1:2001 I was waiting. I don't know why it takes two years to accept it as polish standard. To be faster polish government decided to allow for EU standards be entered in Poland in English language. They were working two years adding first and last pages (in Polish) saying that what is inside can be assumed as PN-EN 60950-1:2003. I have it since yesterday but had no time to begin reading yet. I think of 1km, but only in one building. My device is 12V powered. I think only EMC is important in that moment for me. Regards
