Dear Richard,
Sorry for not replying to you earlier due to business trip. Thanks for your useful advice. Nowadays, as an importer/retailer, we have to look after lots of legal requirements. However, LVD is still probably the highest priority than the others. I believe imposing document review and/or some effective verification is sensible if re-test is commercially and financially not possible. As you mentioned, these requirements exist in the industrial for long. I would be grateful if someone could share proved effective verification for this purpose. Thanks and regards, Scott From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:45 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Verification of LVD & EMC compliant reports Scott, Please remember which century you're in! A few years ago 'all' that you needed to worry about is the things you've mentioned: safety and EMC. Now however you also need to be concerned with environmental matters too, such as RoHS, REACH and pretty soon EuP too. WEEE remains the responsibility of the party that places the product on each country's market, which sounds like you. As to your question, you did not specify whether you are placing the products on the market as an ostensive manufacturer (i.e. branded as though you had made it) or simply the importer: the requirements differ somewhat. The safety requirements also vary depending whether the item is purely buisness to buisness use, or could end up in someone's home. Bottom line is that if you appear to be the manufacturer or if you are the producer under the GPSD (i.e. the product is not guaranteed to be purely B2B) then the liability for each and every product you place on the market is yours. Different companies will assess that risk differently and come to different conclusions: often large multinationals with reputations and brands to protect are more risk adverse than small start-ups. Part of your risk assessment should include how well you know the company you are purchasing >from and what reputation they have to protect, only you know such things. Regards, Richard ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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
