I was allways told it had to be someone with the authority to stop production and withdraw product from the sale if need me. This seemed to make a lot of sense.
Ian White From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Nick Williams Sent: 22 July 2010 09:14 To: EMC-PSTC (emc-p...@ieee.org) Subject: Re: CE Declaration Signatory I agree very much with John Woodgate that you should not try to define this solely in terms of a job function or title. My view is that the signatory must be the person who has overall responsibility within the company for ensuring that the correct procedures for CE marking are in place. Therefore, you need to keep going up the tree until you reach the person who is senior enough to have the authority to commit _all_ the resources necessary for doing the job properly. Having said that, I would also tend to agree with the view that for volume consumer products there is often value in making someone with a sales role take responsibility for the Declaration since it tends to make them realise that there is more to business than simply shifting product to customers at the maximum rate. Nick. At 17:22 -0600 21/7/10, Powell, Doug wrote: >Hello colleagues, > >In the 1990s we held a discussion on this forum about who should be >the authorized signer of a CE Declaration of Conformity. As I >recall it was a rather spirited discussion. For example; in the >early days of CE marking, there was a fairly high sensitivity to the >question of fraudulent declarations and marking. Also, there was >concern about liability and the signatory's personal risk of >litigation. > >Over time, attitudes, perceptions may have changed and we certainly >see a change in business with outsourcing, insourcing and a host of >other business models in operation. So, I would like to pose the >question once again. I am not asking for anyone to reveal the >secret inner workings of their company, so this is more a question >about what are the best practices and why. > >So here is my question; Who is the "best person" to sign an EU >Declaration of Conformity and why? > >When I say best person, I'm talking about a person with a >departmental position as well as role or rank within the >organization that manufactures the product. Some of the possible >responses I have anticipated are: > >1) Engineering Department, Quality department, or Operations department. >2) Engineering Director, V.P. of Engineering, or officer of the >corporation. > >I look forward to your responses. >-doug >Douglas E. Powell - 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 <emc-p...@ieee.org> 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 <emcp...@socal.rr.com> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com> - 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 <emc-p...@ieee.org> 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 <emcp...@socal.rr.com> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
