Kevin, I have spent years immersed in EU legislation related to industrial machinery and I have never heard of any regulatory requirements to keep a product or a replacement part available to the market for any period of time.
Your company might have obligations, as you say, related to commitments you've made to customers via contracts, warranties or guarantees. Regards, -- Lauren Crane (mr.) Product Regulatory Analyst | Corporate Product EHS | Applied Materials Office 512.272.6540 | Mobile 512.736.7201 | America - Europe - Asia external use ** Save paper and trees! Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: 05/18/2011 05:42 PM Subject: Replacements for obsolete products Sent by: [email protected] ________________________________ List Members, I was asked a question today about EU requirements on obsolete products. Specifically how long must we are required to supply a product as a spare or repair item after we declare it obsolete. I have been looking for an answer but cannot find anything. I don’t think there is any rule beyond our own company warranty, but I am not sure. So I am wondering if one of the experts out there, might know something about this. Best regards, Kevin _______________________________________ _____________________________________________ Kevin McCandless | Schneider Electric | Buildings Business | Offer Management | iBMS - R&D | Regulatory Engineer - Intelligent Controllers & Devices Phone: +1 815 637 3175 | Fax: +1 815 637 5343 | Mobile: +1 815 323 8002 Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | Site: www.schneider-electric.com/buildings <h tp://www.schneider-electric.com/buildings> | Address: 1354 Clifford Ave, Loves Park IL 61111, USA *** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email <http://www.messagelabs.com/email> ______________________________________________________________________ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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] <mailto:[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/ <http://www.ieee-pses.org/> Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html <http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html> List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html <http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html> For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Mike Cantwell <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > David Heald <[email protected] <mailto:[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]>
