Hi Gert. At the end of your interesting response you said: <Its my opinion that within a few years, the American market will somehow copy the European set-up. >
I've worried about this. The Euro rules are in place, as I need not remind you, (but the left hand side of the Atlantic mayneed a reminder), because of the Treaty of Rome in the '60s which brought about the need to get all Euro products to the same technical standard for the purposes of Free Movement Of Goods across borders within Europe. i.e the Common Market. The primary reason for the Euro EMC rules being there is therefore political/trade related, and not the need to reduce EMC emissions - though that is not a bad thing. The USA and other countries round the world have quite different reasons for introducing EMC controls, some of which may protectionist, some born of the need to keep interference down. The reasons are many, and because of this technical standards have a different bias. In order to trade with Europe, the USA and others will need to climb over the CE walls of Fortress Europe which they will almost certainly do, but I doubt that they will need to go as far as, for instance, BSEN 61000-3-2, and -3-3. Harmonics and dips, for their own internal purposes. Just a thought... Chris Duprés Surrey, UK.
