This was inevitable. Manufacturers and importers (many, not all) can't be trusted to supply Directive compliant product into Europe. National Authorities (EU countries) can't be trusted to enforce the Directives for incoming goods. So now the EU Commission is legislating enforcement.
The emphasis, as Lauren observes, is on product safety, and quite rightly so in my opinion. However, the other directives such as the EMCD, R&TTE aren't completely ignored where non-conformance is equally, perhaps more so, rife but where the consequences are generally less severe. Some of the readers of this forum would not believe the sheer amount of non Directive compliant product that is shipped into and freely sold in Europe, there is little chance of being caught. It affects all sectors, commercial, industrial and especially consumer goods. But we'll see... perhaps it'll be another EU non-event, like the Unversal Phone Charger. T ----- Original Message ----- From: Crane, Lauren Sent: 09/27/13 05:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] FYI - EU Market Surveillance Regulation will impact all CE marking Directives. For those who have a penchant for developing regulations, or have legal or policy groups you can set on the challenges, the EU is rapidly working on a new market surveillance regulation that will amend all CE marking directives and a bit more. The base Commission proposal as well as the 300+ amendments being considered by Parliament have some pretty alarming provisions (e.g., a poorly formed CE logo can give authorities the presumption the whole product might present a 'risk', and they can impound it, run assessment tests on it, and even if they were wrong, charge you for their troubles). There is another project closely joined to this one related to "consumer" products (replacing the CPSD). The Commission is flying the banner of "consumer safety" over all the work, but it definitely will be impacting B2B commerce. Commission proposal http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/safety/psmsp/docs/psmsp-surveillance_en.pdf Parliament first set of ~60 proposed amendments (committee draft rep! ort) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-513.324+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN Parliament additional set of ~300 amendment proposals http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-516.934+02+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN Regards, Lauren Crane KLA-Tencor - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) 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://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) 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]>
