Have you any information as to the results of this inspection??
>---------- >From: > > brian_mcauliffe_at_irela...@pcmail.tellabs.com[SMTP:Brian_McAuliffe_at_irela >n...@pcmail.tellabs.com] >Sent: Sunday, February 23, 1997 9:06 PM >To: emc-p...@mail.ieee.org; Brian Kunde >Subject: Re: Penalty for Non-Compliance > > One statistic: > > "In Germany alone during 1996 authorities planned to inspect 8000 > products (over 150 per week) in relation to compliance with EMC > Directive." > > I have not heard the outcome of these inspections but on these > figures, if selling into Germany, surely the risk cannot be considered > cost effective when prosecutions can include: > > a substantial fine > withdrawing product > being banned from ever selling in the EU again > > > Also provision has been made for a criminal penalty of imprisonment > (watch out whoever is signing the Declarations of Conformity!) > > > Brian McAuliffe > Tellabs Ltd > > >______________________________ Reply Separator >_________________________________ >Subject: Penalty for Non-Compliance >Author: "Brian Kunde" <brian_ku...@leco.com> at smtplink-tellabs >Date: 21/02/97 11:07 > > > I hear a very disturbing subject being openly discussed among several > of my European contacts. Distributors in Europe are saying that the > CE marking is a joke. That many companies (European Companies are > mentioned most often) are simply applying the CE marking to their > products without testing. Some say that many companies were initially > forced to do this because of the time and cost of testing and > redesign, but since there is very little checking going on the risk is > "Cost Effective". > > IS THIS TRUE? > > Has anyone heard of specific situations where a company or person has > been fined or jailed for fraudulently placing the CE marking on > non-compliant equipment? What is the penalty for non-compliance? What > is the penalty for fraud? Is anyone checking? Is anyone getting in > trouble? > > I have been asked to obtain strong evidence to counter this opinion. > More or less to "put the fear of God" into distributors and reassure > our marketing and sales force that delaying product to market for the > CE mark is the right thing to do. > > Can you help? Please post or email me anything you can. > > Thanks, > > Brian Kunde > brian_ku...@leco.com > >
