Richard, I've provided some information for you as below. Sometimes information on CE Marking can raise more questions than it answers. I hope this is a help.
Regards, Rick [email protected] ---------- |From: [email protected] |To: RCTOWNER; treg; richard.payne |Subject: CE Marking |Date: Monday, August 04, 1997 4:46PM | |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" ? |>Any member state of the EU is also a member of the "Community". Therefore, you >have placed your product on the "Community Market" and all applicable Directives >-- New Approach or otherwise -- apply. |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) ? |>You are only required to affix CE Marking to your product if there are New Approach >Directives which apply to it. Judging from the name of your affiliate, you manfuacture >electro-technical products, in which case the New Approach Directives that apply >would be the EMC Directive and the Low Voltage Directive. But other Directives -- >like the Packaging Directive -- may also apply. The Packaging Directive has >labelling requirements, but compliance does not require affixing the CE Marking. |Does anything change if my business is actually owned by a large |international company whose headquarters are not in the EU ? |>Ah, wouldn't that be nice:-)! Actually, no. Regardless of where the OEM or >distributor or whomever is located, the same rules apply. CE Marking is the >responsibility of the "person" first placing the product on the market or into service >within the EU. | |My thanks to anyone who can provide some clarification here. | | |Richard Payne |Tektronix, Inc. |[email protected] | |
