As soon as you place a product onto the market in any member state, that product must be in compliance with all relevant European directives (or more importantly the national implementation of the directives in your chosen member state) and must be CE marked accordingly.
Unfortunately, the origin of the manufacturer is irrelevant as is any restriction in the sale of the product (ie only to one country). Equally any restriction in the number of products supplied is irrelevant also. Nick Evans Director Genesys IBS Ltd Worldwide Product Compliance & Localisation Tel: +44 1600 710300 Fax: +44 1600 710301 Mobile: +44 385 367348 (GSM) E-mail: [email protected] (data transfer limit: 2Mb) Web: Http://www.gentel.co.uk/genesys ---------- From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: 04 August 1997 21:58 To: [email protected] Subject: CE Marking Good Day All: I have a question about CE Marking. If I am a manufacturer in member state of the European Union, and I make a product which I sell exclusively to my customer located in the same member state: Have I placed my product on the "Community Market" ? Or is this transaction only taking place within a "National Market" ? If there are EU Directives applicable to my type of product am I required to place the CE Marking on my products (assuming they are compliant) ? Does anything change if my business is actually owned by a large international company whose headquarters are not in the EU ? My thanks to anyone who can provide some clarification here. Richard Payne Tektronix, Inc. [email protected]
