In looking over some information for a customer, I came back to the IEC’s IECEE section of their website.
“The fundamental principle of the CB Scheme is that a manufacturer can obtain a CB Test Certificate for a defined product, from a national certification body (NCB). The manufacturer can then present this certificate to the NCBs in other member countries whose certification marks he wants for his products. The CB Scheme is based on the principle of mutual recognition by its members of test certificates for the purpose of issuing third-party certification marks at national level. The members of the scheme commit themselves to recognize the CB Test Certificate issued by any Certification Body accepted by the CMC to operate within the scheme. An essential part of this is peer assessment. Experience shows that in addition to promoting confidence among the members of the CB Scheme, Peer Assessment, as a method to verify competence and build confidence is accepted by authorities and clients of testing and certification bodies as having at the least same value as accreditation.“ (http://www.iec.ch/conformity/ab_iecee.htm) I thought that manufacturers testing using harmonized standards (when available) was a correct route to demonstrating compliance to the EU directives and that CE-marking was only mark needed. Am I getting marking confused with national and international levels? And what would be an example of a difference? It also seems that the CB-scheme is promoting as an alternative to accreditation? Thoughts and comments? Thanks! Doug Kramer - 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
