Many thanks for your advice and guidance that given in your replies. Apparently, the current new approach directives do not cover this low voltage limit but this situation may be changed in future. As safety issues of such type of products appear in public media from time to time, we should demonstrate due diligence in addressing product safety on products falling into this area by applying the relevant standard regardless of what the scope says.
Regarding IT or audio/video products, the traditional audio/video products will be transformed into IT products gradually. On some products, they are really difficult to say if 60065 or 60950 should be applied. Raymond Li [email protected] Sent by: [email protected] 17/03/05 03:25 AM To [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] cc Subject Re: Electronic products operating below 50 Vac/75 Vdc John, I think that the General Product Safety Directive (GPSD) is the legislation Raymond is looking for for the range of products he describes. This requires products to be safe, but does not call for the CE marking (though this will almost certainly be required for the products mentioned by dint of the EMC Directive). The Commission originally proposed to list standards deemed to provide conformity with the GPSD, but they seem to have changed their minds. This is possibly because if you look at just the LVD list of standards and then magnify that 'n'-fold because the GPSD also covers non-electrical products as well it is possible to see that updating such a list would be a mammoth task. Be that as it may, complying with EN 60950-1 for tthe products cited would be a very good idea. While there are indeed proposals to eliminate the lower voltage limits of the LVD, I do not think that people should hold their breaths waiting. Lets look at some timescales... In 2005 the Commission will be consulting with stakeholders by issuing a questionnaire. In 2006 they are expected to analyse the results of their consultation and prepare a proposal that will need to be considered by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. We may therefore see a revised LVD published in the OJEC some time in 2007 (but not if the gestation time for the revised Machinery Safety Directive is anything to go by!). But Directives are not directly applicable, they first need to be transposed into national law in each Member State and we should expect 1 to 3 years for this. Hence, my guess is that we should not expect a revised LVD to become national law before 2008, and chances are that it will be a couple of years after that before it applies across most of the EU. My view, which others may not agree with. Bearing the above in mind, the GPSD hasn't yet been transposed into UK legislation - although we do have the Consumer Protection Act. Regards, Richard Hughes ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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
