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There is also some ambiguous verbiage about "being placed on the
market" which leads me to believe that products placed on the market
before July 1st are also exempt. Since the modular industry does not
built a new VCO every year, this might be good.<br>
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Johannes Öberg wrote:<br>
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cite="midbe546e560601120957m7ec4ad2cm145beae4b0819d93@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Or consumers are simply considered the weakest part with
the least protesting capability, and not interessting enough in the
bribes department...<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br>
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</span></span>Anyway the text talks about spare parts for stuff made
before 1 july 2006. I would certainly consider synthesizer modules to
be spare parts! :-) I'm no lawyer for sure, but say you are replacing
your failing VCO module with a new one. Spare part, I would say. Must
the spare also be made before 1 july?
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/J<br>
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>It looks like consumer equiment is the only thing really targeted,
with<br>
>the assumption that we don't need reliability anyway!
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Regards,
John Blacet
Blacet Research
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