Hello Peter,
I recommend reviewing the Blue Guide <h tp://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/s ngle-market-goods/files/blue-guide/guidepublic_en.pdf> . Section 5.4 describes the EC declaration of conformity, and sections 3.1 through 3.3 will describe the roles related to the manufacturer, authorized representative and importer. I presume that it is your customers who are actually importing your products into the EU as part of their systems. If the customer’s system falls under certain directives, such as the EMC directive, it would need to comply with that directive as a system. The customer’s system would then need to be CE marked and would need a DoC. Your products do not need to be CE marked to be part of a compliant system. In fact, it would be up to your customer to demonstrate that your products comply. CE marking on individual components doesn’t necessarily show that the system will be compliant. The systems integrator can still do all of the necessary testing without having you do the testing or perform CE marking. Ted Eckert Compliance Engineer Microsoft Corporation [email protected] The opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CE mark Hello group, We are a US based manufacturer that sells our products to global customer and some of these individual customers are requesting that we CE mark our products so that they can integrate them into their system for EU. I have everything done including my DoC (Declaration of conformity) but we don't have any importer or sales office in EU and therefore don't know what address I should use on my DoC. How can a US manufacturer CE complete the DoC and affix the CE mark on the product when they don't have any present in the EU? Thanks Peter - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/> Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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]> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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]>
