In message <[email protected]>, dated Wed, 8 Mar 2006, maddog 4030 <[email protected]> writes >From the CENELEC website it appears that the Date of Approval [doa] is >targetted for June 2006 and the Date of Publication [dop] is targetted >for 12-1-2006. I hope that I got the meanings of the acronyms correct...
doa is 'date of adoption'. dop is [latest] 'date of publication' of the national implementations of the standard. But the critical one for users is the dow - the 'date of withdrawal of the superseded standard'. Beyond that date, the national committees make the superseded standard obsolete. However, there is a complication which applies in a small number of cases. The decision about when the superseded standard is no longer valid under a Directive is actually a legal one, and standards bodies don't make decisions about legal matters. The Commission makes those, and USUALLY accepts the dow, but it may not. It alone determines the docopocoss - the 'date of cessation of presumption of conformity of the superseded standard'. This applies only to standards 'notified' in the OJEC anyway and the EN 61000-4 series Basic Standards are not notified. But for notified standards, one should check the docopocoss in the OJEC, and not assume it's the same as the dow. > -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immoderately. John Woodgate - 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/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: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
