In message <00d001cb38bc$d23e5aa0$76bb0fe0$@com>, dated Tue, 10 Aug 2010, [email protected] writes:
>Management is saying CE is not needed on a machine because it's for >internal use. Built in the USA, used in the EU. Is CE required or >not? > >I cannot find anything in the Directive that says it applies only to >equipment for sale. I actually find several references that make me >believe the Directive is applicable to anything placed on the market or >in use. You are correct. But other advice you have been given excludes one possibility. If the machine is to be used ONLY EVER at one specified place in the EU, then it might be acceptable to use the provisions for special equipment intended for use at a particular site. If you want to go down this route, it is ESSENTIAL that you obtain the relevant official documents and study them carefully. See 'Whereas (20)' and article 13 1. of the Directive (2004/108/EC). Also see 4.4 of the EMC GUIDE, May 2007 or later. This explains that the provision can be used for more than one machine of similar or identical type, provided each is intended for use at a specified location and is in fact used there and nowhere else. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK If at first you don't succeed, delegate. But I support unbloated email http://www.asciiribbon.org/ - 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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc 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]>
