In message <[email protected]>, dated Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Cortland Richmond <[email protected]> writes:
>There have been questions here how EU enforcement is being done. >For example, see all the LVD violations at 2008 week 40: >http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/dyna/rapex/create_rapex.cfm?rx_id=205 > Some of these give concern about the quality of the surveillance, such as this: "The product does not comply with the Low Voltage Directive and the relevant European standards EN 55022 and EN 55024." The standards cited are EMC standards, not safety. In other reports from the same source, EN 60950 is added or substituted. In one case, 'EN 61000' is cited; this is a huge multi-part EMC standard, many of which would not be applicable to the product. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Either we are causing global warming, in which case we may be able to stop it, or natural variation is causing it, and we probably can't stop it. You choose! John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - 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
