Repeated from Electronics Weekly, October 29 1997 (http://www.electronicsweekly.co.uk/)
FIRST EMC PROSECUTION Computer Supercentre of Cardiff has become the first company in the UK to be prosecuted under the EMC directive. The firm was fined GBP2,000 and ordered to pay GBP1,000 costs. Such a fine is regarded by many as insignificant. But David Holland, Cardiff trading standards unit manager, said the firm would have been harmed if stock was seized. "This is a smallish company assembling bits and bobs. If it was a large concern, we could have been impounding large amounts of equipment," he said. The second company to be prosecuted by Cardiff trading standards goes to court in two weeks. Holland has data on another six products that failed EMC tests. Because of the way the law works, data will be passed to colleagues around the country for investigation. [ends] -- Bill Lyons - [email protected] / [email protected]
