Hi Nick: Can you give examples of significant impacts caused by the new wording? How does your quoted paragraph: > "‘apparatus’ means any finished appliance or combination thereof > made commercially available as a single functional unit, intended > for the end user and liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, > or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance;" differ from this edited paragraph: > "‘apparatus’ means any finished appliance or combination thereof > made commercially available as a single functional unit, -------- > --- --- --- ---- and liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, > or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance;"
Pat Lawler EMC Engineer SL Power Electronics Corp. Nick Williams <[email protected]> wrote on 01/11/2011 01:36:57 PM: > I realise that the (ominous?) silence which has greeted my earlier > enquiry is probably the result of me failing to be clear enough in > my original question, so I will re-state it. Please ignore my earlier post! > The concept of 'end user' to which I refer is contained in the > definition of what is within the scope of the EMC Directive, > contained in article 2(1)b: > "‘apparatus’ means any finished appliance or combination thereof > made commercially available as a single functional unit, intended > for the end user and liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, > or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance;" > According to this clause, products which are not intended for the > 'end user' are not within the scope of the EMC Directive. > I would like to gain some insight into how the concept of end user > came to be included within the new Directive, and what it means. To > re-iterate what I said earlier, the phrase 'end user' was not in the > original EMC Directive 89/336/EEC, nor was it introduced by any of > the amendments brought in before the whole Directive was replaced by > 2004/108/EEC in 2007. However, the phrase is used in the UK > Regulations which implemented 89/336/EEC, and these include a definition. > The phrase was introduced into the new EMC Directive 2004/108/EC, > although it is not actually defined in the Directive itself. This > usage in the section defining scope is carried through to the UK > Regulations (as one would expect) but the definition of the term > 'end user' which was in the 2005 Regulations is no longer in the > 2006 version. The Commission guide on the new Directive contains > some guidance which is broadly consistent with, although by no means > the same as, the definition in the UK's 2005 Regulations. > The reason for my interest is that, on the face of it, the change to > make the EMC Directive only applicable to products intended for an > end user has a very significant impact on the scope of the Directive > and I am surprised that more was not made of this at the time that > the new Directive came into force. Or have I missed something? > Nick. > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
