Further clarifications by Roger Magnussen and Nick Evans
OK, so that means that CTR21 is effective 21 days after publication in the OJ, NOT 20 days after the Member States were notified. Nobody knows when the OJ publication will take place, but most believe that will be sometimes in September. Ergo, sometime in October, the member states won't have any choice but accept equipment that bears the CE marking accompanied by a Notified Body number, provided that equipment meets the national requirements for anything not covered under CTR21. I believe that what is meant here is the ETSI Document published as TBR21, dated January 1998. For all the practical reasons Nick Evans gave, you may well be able to do business earlier than that under the CTR21 banner. It all remains a tricky situation if you add attractive and useful features to the equipment (such as voice capability) and you don't meet the national requirements on such features. This is a consultants dream world. Ciao, Vic Vic Boersma ================================================================= > > All member states have to accept a CTR 20 days after its publication in the > O J. Anything else would be a violation of Article 30 of the Treaty (dealing > with barriers of trade). > > CTR 21 passed the European Council vote on 20 July, and all Member States >> were so notified on 21 July.
