Jim,
1. The new Product Safety Act is an overall act and includes B2C (consumer products) and B2B products. 2. You will find the harmonized area (CE marking) in section 3 subsection 1 ProdSG. This subsection has a cross-reference to the national transposed EU directives: e. g. the 1st ProdSV is the transposition of the existing Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC. 3. The non-harmonized area (no EU regulations exist => no CE marking) is addressed in section 3 subsection 2 ProdSG. 4. With respect to section 3 the Product Safety Act regulates additional requirements for all kind (mechanical tools like screw drivers, office furniture, ITE for consumers, household applicances, ) of consumer products in section 6 (with/without CE marking, with/without GS marking)! 5. That means the label requirements of section 6 subsection 1 number 2 name and adress of the manufacturer or the authorized rep. or the importer is currently limited to consumer products. 6. After publication of the NLF alignment package of 9 directives (http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/single-market-goods/regulatory-poli cies-common-rules-for-products/new-legislative-framework) Germany will amend the national ProdSVs (see number 2 above). The NLF package includes also the new labelling requirements for importers, see Article R4 subsection 3 (see annex I of decision 768/2008/EC). You will find this new requirement in the proposal of the amended Low Voltage Directive. 7. Therefore Germany has implemented the labelling requirement in advance but that is not a new regulation because the formely GPSG had also this labelling requirements for consumer products (see section 5 subsection 1 lit. b) of the GPSG I have an English version as PDF file if you need a copy). New is that the non-compliance with this regulation is an offense (see section 39 subsection 1 number 3 ProdSG). We are looking forward how the German market surveillance authorities are doing his market control job in the near future An English version of the ProdSG is not available. Sorry. Best regards Dipl.-Ing. Michael Loerzer Managing Director Regulatory Affairs Specialist Das neue Buch zum Thema "Product Compliance": http://www.beuth.de/de/artikel/produktkonformitaet (Produktkonformität, Prozesse, Risikomanagement, CE-Kennzeichnung, Fallbeispiele für Geschäftsführung, Konstruktion, Normenabteilung, Vertrieb, Einkauf, Produktion, QM) _________________________________________ Globalnorm GmbH Alt-Moabit 94 10559 Berlin Fon +49 30 3229027-51 Mobile +49 170 3229027 Fax +49 30 3229027-59 Mail michael.loer...@globalnorm.de <http://www.globalnorm.de/> www.globalnorm.de <http://www.globalnorm.ca/> www.globalnorm.ca <http://www.product-compliance.com/> www.product-compliance.com _________________________________________ Globalnorm GmbH, Sitz der Gesellschaft: Alt-Moabit 94, 10559 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Michael Loerzer Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg HRB 105204 B, USt-ID-Nummer: DE251654448 Von: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] Im Auftrag von Jim Hulbert Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Februar 2012 21:40 An: EMC-PSTC (emc-p...@ieee.org) Betreff: German Product Safety Act (ProdSG) - Label requirement Under the new German Product Safety Act (ProdSG), as of Dec 2011 consumer products are required to have a label with the name and address of the manufacturer (or importer if the manufacturer is outside the EU). Simply providing that information with the operator guide is not good enough anymore. Does this new requirement apply only to products that have the GS certification mark, or does it apply to all consumer products? Jim Hulbert - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. 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