In message <001901c72f3a$8f7f9420$0202fea9@Raymond>, dated Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Scott Xe <[email protected]> writes > >Does it mean that we do not need to do anything even though we know the >new directive? We may not need to take the action immediately but as a >spirit of this newsgroup, we have to start the discussion on how to >proceed smoothly the implementation of new directive. We should not >just find any legal and illegal excuses not to take any actions. >Otherwise, this newsgroup becomes useless.
I posted previously on this. If that article has gone missing, here is what I wrote: QUOTE Directives are addressed 'to the member states', not to companies or individuals. They need to be transposed into national law to become effective. Usually, the date on which the new Directive has to be cited on DoCs is specified, e.g. for the new EMC Directive it is 20 July 2009 for everything other than fixed installations, which don't need a DoC. But no such date is specified in the new LVD. However, there is a relevant provision in Article 14 of the new Directive: QUOTE References made to the repealed Directive shall be construed as being made to this Directive and should be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex VI. ENDQUOTE From this, it can be deduced that there is no specific date set for DoCs to bear the reference of the new Directive. But that could change. ENDQUOTE If you think about it, even the Commission is not so evil-minded as to give manufacturers only a few days notice of the need to produce new DoCs. That would be so unreasonable that it cannot possibly be the intention. On the other hand, if DoCs are still referring to the old Directive by this time next year, manufacturers may well then be asked to put things in order. Furthermore, it's NOT a new Directive; it is termed 'consolidated' - it is the old Directive with the amendments that have become applicable over the past years embodied in the text. So there is no need to study how to implement it - we already have been implementing it, ever since the last amendment came into effect. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Politically unexceptionable seasonal greetings to all. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex 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/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 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
