Hi Pete. Yes, it's a sad state of affairs. Our profession needs to do more or something different to turn this around.
I wish AdCo could release where these products originated from so we can focus our attention on improvements in these regions. Anybody know of some examples of penalties/fines that have occurred recently? I'm also surprised there was no cross-border market surveillance of just LVD or Machinery. It appears they are just cherry picking the high profile products/categories. On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:01 AM Pete Perkins <peperkin...@cs.com> wrote: > Regan, Thanx for chasing down these statistics; very > interesting. For most of the folks on this forum the most interesting are > the technical non-conformity issues. The best/lowest is 14% for EMC and > higher 24%/25% for safety/radio. Doesn’t speak well for our profession and > influence on industry. Yes, there are many others but most of them are > Technical File paperwork issues. > > > > :>) br, Pete > > > > Peter E Perkins, PE > > Principal Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs Consultant > > PO Box 23427 > > Tigard, ORe 97281-3427 > > > > 503/452-1201 > > > > IEEE Life Fellow > > p.perk...@ieee.org > > > > *From:* Regan Arndt <reganar...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 31, 2018 3:52 PM > *To:* EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > *Subject:* Re: [PSES] CE non-conformity statistics > > > > Thanks Charlie. I checked the latest on the RED. Below is an excerpt on > the stats. Amazing. Wonder what the penalties were..... hmmmm.. > > > > ADCO RED report to TCAM WG on market surveillance statistics for 2016 > > > > *2. Results for 2016 * > > Totally, 13,488 R&TTE equipment has been inspected by 25 market > surveillance authorities in 2016: Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, > Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, > Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, > Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and United Kingdom. About 10391 > equipment were been found non-compliant to the provisions of the R&TTE > Directive. However, due to the fact that not all provisions were checked by > all involved market surveillance authorities, the effective amount of non > compliant equipment may be higher. > > > > *Summary of the results: **·** Overall : 10391 non compliant equipment > (13488 inspected equipment)* > > - Declaration of conformity : 9372 non compliant DoC (13224 inspected > equipment) > - CE marking : 8307 non complaint CE marking (13371 inspected > equipment) > - Geographical area for use : 3773 not compliances (11750 inspected > equipment) > - Essential requirements : 579 technical non compliances (of 2131 > measured equipment) > - Safety (art.3.1.a): 116 technical non compliances (of 488 measured > equipment) > - EMC (art 3.1.b.): 84 technical non compliances (of 583 measured > equipment) > - Radio (art.3.2.) : 434 technical non compliances (of 1755 measured > equipment) > - Technical documentation: 276 non compliances (of 651 inspected > equipment) > - Test reports: 236 non compliances (of 603 inspected equipment) > - Drawings and explanations: 47 non compliances (of 212 inspected > equipment) > - Other elements: 79 non compliances (of 326 inspected equipment) > > Regan > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:47 PM Charlie Blackham < > char...@sulisconsultants.com> wrote: > > Regan > > > > Market enforcement reports from the various “AdCos”, Administrative > Cooperation Groups, can be found at > http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/goods/building-blocks/market-surveillance/organisation/administrative-cooperation-groups_en > under the “Documents from the AdCo Groups) > > > > As well as a number of reports on EMC, you may wish to look at the > R&TTE/RED ones as well > > > > Regards > > Charlie > > > > *Charlie Blackham* > > *Sulis Consultants Ltd* > > *Tel: +44 (0)7946 624317* > > *Web: **www.sulisconsultants.com* > <https://outlook.hslive.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=02be3bf3e3a544d1bdf7b6c99fbd12f5&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sulisconsultants.com%2f> > > Registered in England and Wales, number 05466247 > > > > *From:* Regan Arndt <reganar...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* 29 October 2018 23:34 > *To:* EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > *Subject:* [PSES] CE non-conformity statistics > > > > Greetings fellow members, > > > > Out of curiosity, has anyone been privy to any recent EU statistics for > those manufacturers who have been subjected to customs investigations > pertaining to CE marking, penalties, sales bans, etc. due to, not only > selling an unsafe product but, having no CE marking on product, no DoC, > insufficient technical files, non-compliance to the directives, etc? > > The only thing I can find on the web that has something close is from > Yvonne Halpaus of QNET, LLC where she recently published a guide on CE > marking in 2015. An excerpt is below: > > *Findings in earlier reports show that 37,600 items of equipment tested in > Switzerland showed 1,100 cases of CE Conformity problems. Of 3,962 items > that were subjected to rigorous measurements, a high proportion of the > devices were found defective (976 altogether) and that none of these met > the EMC specified requirements. * > > *In 23 cases a sales ban was imposed and legal proceedings were launched. > Two other Member States also revealed problems when testing against the EMC > & Machinery Directive: 33% failed the EMC tests, 47% did not meet the > Machinery Directive formal rules and 89% had technical non-conformities. * > > *These negative findings were not the result of regular surveillance > mechanisms, 58% was based on examinations triggered by accidents, 33.3% > following inspection of equipment installation, 8.5% based on complaints > from competing manufacturers and 0.2% following visits to trade fairs*. > > > > Thanks for sharing any information you have. I'm wanting to update my CE > marking training slides with some good solid facts. > > Regan Arndt > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc > discussion list. 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