John and Dennis, Thank you for resetting my wrong assumptions.
Few years ago, when I was first time learning how CE marking works reading something (?) I understood, that all legal actions for the out of EC manufacturer must be done by his authorised representative in the Community. I was 100% sure of it, so later I have never point enough attention to exact wording to notice my misunderstanding. So if the manufacturer has the authorised representative in the Community and I wont to be an importer I have nothing to do with DoC (even not see it, because it is manufacturer and his representative responsibility to have DoC for every product he sends to EC) ? It looks to simply to be true. Do my assumption that regarding WEEE the importer will have more tasks to do is also wrong ? Thank you once more for your help. Regards Piotr Galka ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Woodgate" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:24 PM Subject: Re: Another DofC and CE basic question. > In message <00ca01c7f77d$0a27ed70$154d4d0a@MmPc21>, dated Sat, 15 Sep > 2007, Piotr Galka <[email protected]> writes: > >>The out of EU manufacturer must have the authorised representative >>established in the Community and it is that representative who has the >>right to write DoC and to affix the CE mark (that manufacturer is not >>allowed to do it). > > That is not so. The detailed wording on this no doubt varies between > Directives, but see, for example, Article 8 1 of the new EMC Directive > 2004/108/EC, and Annexes II to IV. In each case, we see 'manufacturer OR > authorized representative'. > > There is an implied difference between 'authorized representative' and > 'importer'. The latter might very well be a non-technical company, unable > to deal with conformance issues. The 'authorized representative', however, > might be more like the European Division of a multinational company, > marketing products from another Division, outside the EC. > -- - 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 ______________________________________________________________________
