Chris, Your answer is partly correct. However, the current UK law as embodied in BABT's Licence Regulations makes no distinction in approval procedure between those products which fall under the scope of a CTR and those that do not. National approvals are granted following Annex I assessment against the relevant "essential requirements", which are listed in the recently published UK NTR standards.
The original UK implementation was as you state, however this has been modified to be in alignment with the way that other Member States have adopted the Directive into national law. It is also interesting to note that certain major European countries have yet to implement 91/263/EEC into national law, and as a result have been served with 169 notices from the Commission. Roger, I suggest that you read the national approval regulations of each Member State rather than assuming that the Directive has any verbatim legislative standing. See also the definitive guide to all such issues and much more on national procedures - The European Approvals Manual. Email [email protected] for further details. Ynyr Roberts InterConnect Communications ------------- Begin Original Message ------------- List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tue May 7 13:25:35 -0500 1996 From: internet!3mail.3Com.COM!Chris_Brearley (Chris Brearley/US/3Com) Subject: RE: Telecom Directive, Annex I-IV To: internet!phx.sectel.mot.com!prenger (Roger Prenger) Cc: internet!world.std.com!treg (treg) Content-Type: Text Content-Length: 3906 Roger, I think your answer is found in the national laws for the different countries. If you look at the UK Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 1992 (SI #2423), Part 1 section 2 (1). "Sections 22 and 84 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 and approvals given under either of those sections shall cease to apply to applicable terminal equipment on 6th Nov 1992" and section 4 (3) "Terminal equipment in respect of which no common technical regulation is in force shall not be applicable terminal equipment; and for the purpose of these Regulations, a common technical regulation shall not be taken to be in force in respect of any terminal equipment, until the date specified in it from which it shall be applied." This implys that, in the case of the UK, the Telecommunications Act of 1984 is applicable for any terminal equipment for which there is no CTR (i.e., revert back to national requirements). I don't know about other countries, but I would imagine that there would be something similar in the national law of all the countries. Anyone else know? Regarding your second question, the ETSI web page (http://www.etsi.fr/dir/infocentre/info.htm) gives lists of standards recently adopted etc... It only gives the titles of the standards though, not a description of the scope. rgds, chris [email protected] ----- Previous Message ---------------------------------------------------- To: treg @ world.std.com @ UGATE cc: From: prenger @ phx.sectel.mot.com (Roger Prenger) @ UGATE List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tuesday May 7, 1996 10:48 AM Subject: RE: Telecom Directive, Annex I-IV ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- Treggers, >Think about it - if there isn't a CTR then the TTE Directive doesn't apply, >and National requirements will take precedence. > >Regards, >Alan I am wary of this answer. Article 1, Paragragh 1 of the Telecom directive states "This Directive shall apply to terminal equipment." There is no exclusion for terminal equipment without a specified type or CTR. I agree without a CTR, National requirements take precedence for connection approval; however, I do not think this absolves us from the TTE directive, more specifically Article 9, as cited below. Especially in view of the fact that the CE mark for Telecom requires a Notified Body's insignia (Article 11, Paragragh 1). Since the EMC and Low Voltage directives allow self-declaration, the only demand for a Notified Body's participation is from Article 9. More input is respectfully requested, roger [email protected] "All men die. Not every man really lives." - William Wallace, 'Braveheart' > ---------- >From: treg-approval >To: treg >Subject: Telecom Directive, Annex I-IV >Date: 06 May 1996 16:20 > >Telecom Directive, Article 9, Paragraph 1 states: > >...terminal equipment shall be subject to either the EC type-examination, >as described in Annex I, or to the EC declaration of conformity, as >described >in Annex IV. > >Telecom Directive, Annex I, Paragraph 4.3 states: > >...to check that the type meets the relevant common technical regulations >specified... > >Q1. Does this mean that we have to go through Annex IV, if there is no > CTR (common technical regulation) relevant to our product? > >Q2. Where can I get a list of the current CTR's and interim CTR's and > descriptions of their scope so I can determine if our product is > indeed covered somewhere? "Anything Online?" he queried, hoping to > save a tree or two. > >Thanks, > >roger >[email protected] > >"Family is just who you're with and how you treat 'em." > - Grace, from Grace Under Fire. > >
