G'Day! A UK regulation oddity:
Statutory Instrument 2006/3418 which brings in the new EMC directive in July this year says: Part III, para 23: "1) The responsible person shall retain in relation to apparatus (a) an EC declaration of conformity; (b) any statement of a notified body; and (c) the technical documentation; for ten years after the date on which such apparatus was last manufactured." However, in Part I, para 5(3) it says: "Specific essential requirements for fixed installations 5. —(3) The responsible person in relation to a fixed installation shall hold such documentation at the disposal of the enforcement authority for inspection purposes for as long as the fixed installation is in operation." The latter is what confuses me - a fixed installation could be there for 20, 30, even 50, years. So you have to keep the "fixed installation" documentation forever, but the "apparatus" documentation for only 10 years? Or am I misreading it all (likely!). Alan Principal Engineer BAE Systems ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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
