In article <[email protected]>, John Woodgate <[email protected]> writes >In article <[email protected]>, jeff >collins <[email protected]> writes >>I think I already know the answer to this question but I would like to >>bounce it off this forum to get a solid consensus or find a plausible >>loop hole. I have a customer that has a piece of Semiconductor >>Manufacturing equipment that was sold to his customer in France before >>CE came into effect. The customer now needs parts for that equipment to >>keep it running. One of the parts is a power supply which is not CE Mark >>and does not have a prayer of meeting the current CE requirements from >>my recent assessment of it. >> >>How can we send replacement power supplies and other components into the >>EU that do not have a CE Mark on them. > >Put a lot of explanation right there on the shipping documents. 'These >parts are for repairing a machine made and installed before ..., to >bring it back to its original specification, without exceeding or >improving on that specification.' Since France is involved, have that >statement also in French. > >Actually, since the parts were originally embodied in the machine during >manufacture, they would not have required a CE mark anyway. The CE mark >would have applied to the whole machine.
Ah, I should qualify that last statement. It is not true if the machine is large enough to be classed as an 'installation' in the specific sense of the EMC Directive. -- 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 Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [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
