Hello Kris, About 10 years ago my company Niros Telecommunication was contacted by the Belgium Authority whom told that the DoC should be written in Dutch as well as in French and German.
At that time we had a DoC written in English, German, French and Italian. We changed to a combination of a short form DoC and one complete DoC written in English. Short form in English: Hereby, [Name of manufacturer], declares that this [type of equipment] is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC. The short form DoC can be found at the link below: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/rtte/documents/interpretation/index_e n.htm See "23. Form of the manufacturers' declaration to be put into the user's manual" We used this form for DoC for the ATEX directive as well. Best regards Helge Knudsen Former Test & Approval manager Niros Telecommunication Denmark -----Original Message----- From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Carpentier Kristiaan Sent: 18. november 2012 14:13 To: Nick Williams; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: RE: EU-DoC - list of applied standards with full title 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: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Nick Williams Sent: zondag 18 november 2012 11:14 To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG 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 <j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In message <867f4b6a1672e541a94676d556793acd1b66ce1...@mopesmbx01.eu.thmulti.com>, dated Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Carpentier Kristiaan <kristiaan.carpent...@technicolor.com> 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. 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