It should be borne in mind that there may be certain national consumer laws which require user documentation to be in the national language.
Dave Wilson EMC Manager BABT Product Service ---------- Original Text ---------- From: "POWELL, DOUG" <doug.pow...@aei.com>, on 6/30/99 9:56 AM: Richard, I can only speak from my experience with the LVD and EMC directives. 1) The requirement for CE marked products is that the user documentation and the DoC be in "one" of the official languages of the EU. So, we use English as one of the languages. 2) That being said, the safety standards my company uses to comply with the CE mark, require that we provide user documentation in any of the other official languages if in fact our customer explicitly requires it by contract. However this may be a reduced size document containing only those portions that are specifically related to the safe installation, operation, maintenance and disposal of the product. It is not required that you translate sections like theory of operation, applications, sales literature, etc. 3) Additionally, when we certify a product through a notified body, in this case LGA in Nurnberg Germany, the national public safety law requires a manual in German. I suspect other nationalities within the EU have similar requirements for certified products. This policy has been confirmed by our representative from LGA America. -doug ======================================= Douglas E. Powell, Compliance Engineer Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 USA ======================================= -----Original Message----- From: WOODS, RICHARD [mailto:wo...@sensormatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:44 AM To: 'emc-pstc' Subject: EU Official Languages When a Directive requires information to be provided to the user, and that equipment is intended to marketed in every EU and EFTA country, what minimal set of languages must be used? I can think of the following languages that are used in these countries. Are there more languages that must be included? Can some of these be deleted? English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian (EFTA) --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
