EMC Compliance

[Forbes, William - EE - UK/Leamington]

I think that in theory, there will be people that rip
these product apart to check for infringements, but in
reality, this just won't happen. This is a legal thing,
so each case will have to go to court etc.

I believe that in reality, a third-party will complain
to the authorities, and then action may be taken,
depending on the severity of the complaint (someone
being killed by a faulty product will be investigated
before others for example).

The fact is that there are not enough enforcement
officers to do all the investigation, so investigation
has to be limited to blatant breeches of the law.
It is also not cost effective to employ more officers
as the fines levied can be relatively small. The fine
may be related to the ability to pay!

Hence the big companies, such as Sony, may not be
able to justify fully testing a product for CE
conformity and don't want to become liable to legal
action, and hence don't bother exporting to the EU.

The small company is in a better position as the
likelihood of investigation is relatively small.

Bill Forbes. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goddard, Duncan [mailto:goddard.duncan at mtvne.com]
> Sent: 18 January 2001 13:51
> To: Synth-Diy
> Subject: RE: EMC Compliance
> 
> 
> >>>The CE marking requirements are for any product sold in any
> > country in the European Union. It is a legal requirement that
> > all products are CE marked before that can be sold.<<<
> > 
> > 
> I'm guessing that there's also somewhere in europe where they 
> get hold of anything that's mass-marketable and needs 
> electricity, and (probably in a faraday cage) test it to 
> destruction for emission and electrical safety.
>  
> sony make this video laserdisc recorder which uses 12" double 
> sided write-once discs in a plastic cartridge. it's not a 
> spectacularly good machine- the discs are about 25 minutes a 
> side and barely make broadcast quality, but they are useful 
> for looping emergency material for when a transmission system 
> goes wrong. we've got two here, from about six years ago, but 
> when I tried to get another one about five years ago, the 
> sony agent told me they couldn't import them anymore because 
> they failed ce testing. this probably spelled the 
> end-of-the-line for the PAL version...... needles to sew, the 
> machines here have not caused any problems with adjacent 
> equipment. and there isn't an equivalent product available.
> 
> elsewhere, we've got electronics in 1U boxes with 23 (I 
> counted 'em) bolts holding the top cover on. the manufacturer 
> told me that this was "a ce thing"; pretty much the only way 
> to guarantee a pass for broadcast gear is to construct it in 
> a faraday cage of it's own. I suspect, however, that there 
> are items which have slipped the net...... come to think of 
> it, even my mxr distortion-plus reissue had one of these 
> silly stickers on it.
> 
> d.
> 
> 
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