Alex, With respect to Australia, Ron Pickard is pretty much correct. Firstly, the EMC regulations in Australia place the responsibility for compliance with the local manufacturer of a device or the importer of the device. Australian product compliance regulations, including those for EMC, are based upon the local manufacturer or importer signing a Declaration of Conformity. The only way the local manufacturer or importer may "delegate" that responsibility is to "appoint and agent" by written agreement as described in the ACMA web page at the following link: http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_2067 A product Compliance Folder must be established and must include product information and test reports as detailed by the EMC regulations. For an ITE device the test report would need to state compliance with either AS/NZS CISPR 22 or CISPR 22 (to 240V) or EN 55022. The device should comply with Class B limits unless it can be sufficiently justified that the device will not normally be installed/used within 10 metres or a broadcast receiver (i.e. in a "domestic environment"). One major correction to the advice from Ron is that the test report can be >from any reputable test house HOWEVER, having said that, the best way to minimise the risk/liabilities and maximise the chances of a successful audit by the ACMA (ACMA conduct random audits of organization's Compliance Folders) is to ensure that, for EMC, any test report included in a product Compliance Folder be from a test house that is accredited by an accrediting organization with whom NATA (Australian accrediting body) has a MRA (Mutual Recognition Agreement). The 4 basic rules of product compliance in Australia are:
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ron Pickard Sent: Saturday, 15 September 2007 11:17 AM To: 'Alex Horvath' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Test report requirements for C-Tick, VCCI, etc. certification Alex, For Australia, emissions testing to ITE products needs to be performed against AZ/NZS CISPR 22 (Australian & New Zealand national standard), which means that if an Australian compliance folder is audited and contains a CISPR 22 based test report, it may be rejected for two reasons, [1] when the then ACA started accepting CISPR 22 reports, but required testing be performed at 240V line voltage (testing to FCC15B requires testing at 120V and EN55022 requires 230V) and [2]testing needs to be performed at a NATA accredited test lab if a lab quality system MRA is not in place. I believe these are still requirements (someone on the list please verify that). Please note that C-tick approval is a self-declaration scheme managed by the ACMA, but a valid SDofC can only be completed by a registered company in Australia. As for VCCI, to claim VCCI compliance, your company must first become a VCCI member. Otherwise, VCCI compliance cannot be claimed, but I believe EMC compliance in Japan to be voluntary otherwise. And, see below for my short answers to your questions. I hope this was hopeful. Best regards, Ron Pickard [email protected] _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Horvath Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Test report requirements for C-Tick, VCCI, etc. certification Hi, I work for an equipment manufacturer. Initially, we had a product tested to FCC Part 15 and EN55022, EN55024. Subsequently we needed C-Tick and VCCI certification. The test lab told me that the original test report is all that is needed, the only additional step is registration (we have submitted the report to VCCI and the lab is acting as agent for C-Tick). I'm not sure what if any feedback we will receive from VCCI and the C-Tick agent. At what point can we claim VCCI and C-Tick certification? Also, we switched to a more customer oriented test lab (I have to ask these questions here because our old lab has very poor customer service and I hate to ask our new lab about the old labs failures) and they generated "Attestation of Conformance" certificates in the reports for our newer product. The VCCI and C-Tick reports they generated list the standards as "AZ/NZS CISPR 22" and "VCCI CISPR 22". The rest of the C-Tick, VCCI looks similar to the FCC/CE reports except that there are some letters included that look like they confer some qualification to the lab for various countries. I guess my questions are- If you have a product tested to FCC/CE only can you later claim certification for C-Tick and VCCI for example based on the original report (assuming registration of the report in those countries of course)? What does the presence of the standard AZ/NZS CISPR 22, VCCI CISPR 22 in the newer report really mean and are thsoe reports necessary to claim certification in those countries? Thanks, sorry about the neophyte questions but I find hard to get a straight answer from our old lab. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. 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