Dear all I think I may have missed a few of the messages going around about Spanish approval. If you are looking at national Spanish Telecoms approvals you should be aware that the requirements have changed recently. We are probably all aware of the need to use a Spanish engineer but the bad news is that now you also have to have a Spanish company to act as the applicant for telecom type approval. Previously, there were no nationality requirements placed on the applicant.
The applicant is required to take total legal responsibility for all products (of the approved type) shipped into Spain. This can have serious implications as most manufacturer's first thoughts will turn to using a distributor to act as applicant. In doing this, the manufacturer must ensure that the distributor will not restrict supply through other distribution routes and is happy to take responsibility for those products. If the distributor is not happy to allow free distribution, the manufacturer could be in the position of seeking an approval per distribution channel - not pretty! There are all sorts of other legal niceties which need to be observed and a formal contract between the manufacturer and applicant is required. This only applies for national approvals but is a major backward step but unfortunately is not against European law. It is against the spirit of the harmonisation efforts of course. Well I leave you on this happy note as I head off for my Christmas holiday. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all. If anyone needs more details on the above, please let me know in the New Year. Best Regards Nick Evans Genesys Worldwide Product Compliance & Localisation ---------- From: [email protected] on behalf of Mike Miele Sent: 20 December 1996 14:01 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BOUNCE [email protected]: Non-member submission from [F Francie: I was also involved with a modem homologation in Spain earlier this year. We used Cetecom (+34 5 261 9179) as our testing facility and we also had our documentation needs handled by a company called IngeniA which are also located in Spain. Unfortunately I have moved to another company so I do not have all of the contact names and phone numbers with me. If you contact Cetecom they will have IngeniA's number as they recommended them to me. All in all both companies performed well for us, though the costs were higher than most other countries and the time to get the approval is also more. Good luck. ..Mike Miele [email protected] At 02:29 PM 12/20/96 -0800, you wrote: > Francie , > > That's right this is the procedure in Spain; we had the case when > presenting our radio Lan and modem products for approval. > The best way I think is to use one of those engineering consultants > company established in Madrid. > If you wish, send me an Email directly ( [email protected]) and I will > give you the coordinates of the one we used. > > Vincent > > >______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ >Subject: BOUNCE [email protected]: Non-member submission from [FMILL >Author: [email protected] at internet >Date: 20/12/96 7:52 AM > > >From: fmiller%[email protected] (Francie Miller) >Date: 19 Dec 96 12:44:14 PST > >Treggers: >I'd like to hear your input on this: >For Spain, I was told by the locals that we need to provide one portion >of documentation, in Spanish, signed by a Telecom Technical Spanish >Engineer (registered by Official College of Telecom Engineers in Madrid). > The fee is less than $1,000. Although most of you do not work with >ETSI 300-220 radios, have you had this experience with Spain with other >filings? > >Many thanks in advance. >Francie Miller > >[email protected] >______________________________ >Trimble Navigation >1-800-TRIMBLE, exten 8146 >+1-408-481-8146 phone >+1-408-481-8146, 4,1,1 + tone for fax >+1-408-481-6866 2nd fax >______________________________ > > > > > > >
