John, I cannot say that I've read every reply to your request, but I wonder if you've heard from a good cross-section of EU member states?
Although the Commission are trying to get all Member States to act with at least some semblance of uniformity, the fact is that some countries within the EU prefer a 'light touch' (they don't like to call it reactive) whereas others are more 'proactive' (they don't like to call it heavy handed). Certainly, the UK adopts more of a 'complaints driven' approach to market surveillance and companies are likely to be 'invited to do the right thing' prior to a prosecution being brought. For product safety it is the Scandinavian, Austrians and Southern European states that seem to report more non-compliant products than, say Germany, Netherlands or the UK. I do not have information on the corresponding situation for EMC, but intuitively would expect Germany to be among the counties looking to find non-compliant products in a proactive rather than reactive manner. Perhaps some of the people who are in contact with the Commission in relation to EMC matters could say if there is a uniformity of approach re. enforcement measures following market surveillance (assuming stats. are available) and, if such data does exist, which are the more active countries as regards initiating prosecutions. Presumably it is people from these countries who you would most like to hear from in order to bolster your case? 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
