I attended a conference in Amsterdam on March 18th (had to dump my poor wife in a motel on Cocoa Beach for the week-end to do it) where Mr. Joergen Richter of DG XIII introduced a draft for the new Connected Telecommunications Directive (CTE). The gist of the story is that the Commission is having a change of heart on how to best regulate. The point was made repeatedly that under the current system they can't track the original parties that made the declaration. They want to go even so far that they want the notified bodies to hold the files WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE FILES and require that the EC mark comes with the number of the notified body that holds the files, even for a Module A conformity assessment. (Needless to say, the Notified Bodies were less than enthralled with that notion). The fun is only beginning.
Regards, Vic
