From: "Andrea Bishop" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: BOUNCE [email protected]: Non-member submission fro
List-Post: [email protected] Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:31:58 -0800 To: [email protected] From: "Duane J. Marcroft" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: BOUNCE [email protected]: Non-member submission from ["Andrea Bishop" <abish Reply-to: [email protected] Vic and Duane Sorry, trouble with the typing!!. The date that the decision was notified to the member states was the 21 July NOT the 21 June. Article 4 of the documents states: - Equipment within the scope of the harmonised standard (ie TBR21, January 1998) may continue to be approved under national type approval regulations for a period of 15 months after the coming into force of this Decision. The CTR has now been adopted by the Council of the European Union and has been notified to the member states. This means that national organisations CAN now use it for the basis of issuing Pan-European approvals, although they do not have to. I understand that it does not actually have to be transposed into national regulation, and that national approvals can continue to be issued until the transition period stated above has expired. I believe that , in the UK, the Department of Trade and Industry have given the agreement for BABT to use CTR21 as the basis for issuing PAN-European approvals.. Once again, sorry for any confusion. Andrea Vic, It is my understanding once it is printed and distrubuted to member states, they have one year to impliment it. Duane >> CTR 21 passed the European Council vote on 20 July, and was notified >> on 21 June to all National Member States. >> >> This means that CTR21 Pan-European approvals can now be issued. >> > >Andrea, > >I am not quite sure how it works, but it seems to me that I remember that >any decision by the European Commission needs to be transposed into >national regulation in the member states, or something to that effect, >before it takes effect. Seems to me that the member states will need a >couple of days (weeks ... months ....) to do that and that the effective >date even from a Council perspective cannot be the date when ACTS or some >body of that ilk agreed to the CTR. It may well be that some organizations >are willing to let you use their Notified Body number and the CE marking as >soon as they have satisfied themselves that indeed your gadget meets all >the applicable requirements. However, a member state that has not yet >transposed that new agreement into national regulation, may not want to >accept that before they have to. Question is, by what date do the member >states have to implement CTR21 ??? > >By the way, something went screwy with your dates as you have the member >states notified before the Council made its determination. > >Ciao, > >Vic Boersma
