Nick, My country, Belgium, has 3 official national languages, Dutch, French and German. The most recent draft of the Belgian transposition proposal of the RoHS Directive states now that the EU DoC should be drawn up in a language easily understandable by authorities. While the authorities have the right to request a translation in one of the official languages, it allows the use of English. Hopefull other countries follow that example as it worked well for > 20 years.
Best regards, Kris Carpentier -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Williams Sent: zondag 18 november 2012 11:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EU-DoC - list of applied standards with full title It's actually a requirement of some of the directives, not just an addition brought in by transposition in certain countries. Generally, where the Directive requires the Declaration to accompany the product, it must be translated in to the language of the country of the end user. I guess the Commissiion's logic is that the instructions will need to be translated into the same language(s) so it's not a significant additional burden to require the DofC to be translated as well. Nick. On 18 Nov 2012, at 07:56, John Woodgate <[email protected]> wrote: > In message > <867f4b6a1672e541a94676d556793acd1b66ce1...@mopesmbx01.eu.thmulti.com>, dated > Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Carpentier Kristiaan <[email protected]> > writes: > >> Some countries require in their national transposition that the EU DoC is >> issued in the local language. Although most are still in draft: France in >> French, Portugal in Portuguese, Germany in German, etc&.. >> >> In worst case, we have some 24 languages in EU, so lots of fun for >> translation. > > Now that IS a hardship for manufacturers. The way to deal with it is for > manufacturers' associations to petition the Commission for a clarification of > the 'reference' requirement to mean just EN XXXXX:YYYY - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. 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]> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. 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]>
