In message <p06230900c1bfdf79c027@[192.168.1.18]>, dated Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Nick Williams <[email protected]> writes
>Therefore, by my reading, all Declarations of Conformity issued under >the LVD from 16 January 2006 should refer to the new directive and not >the old one. > >Would others care to comment on whether they agree with this interpretation? I do not agree. 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 However, there is a relevant provision in Article 14 of the new Directive: QUOTE References made to the repealed Directive shall be construed as being made to this Directive and should be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex VI.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. -- 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 ______________________________________________________________________
