Kevin, I had that same issue with I was working with the EMC Directive. In fact, I had five very different EMC test plan signed-off by different EMC Competent Bodies. The bottom line is that interpretations do vary between Notified Bodies. The way they get around this issue, at least with EMC Directive, is that once a project has been started by one Competent Body, another one would generally not agree to take over the project. In fact, we were required to submit a Declaration of Submittal to two of our Competent Bodies stating that the product submitted were not being submitted to any other Competent Body.
So my response to your question of "Who rules?"... It's whichever Notified Body you contracted to do the work. Once a certificate is issued by one Notified Body, another Notified Body technically cannot challenge that certification. In retrospect, I am quite in favor of this because it prevents a manufacturer from 'shopping around for the answers they want to hear'. Once the manufacturer selects the Competent or Notified Body, they should live by that decision or start with another, from scratch. The Competent Body or Notified Body should not be expected to 'adopt' the philosophy of another Competent or Notified Body. Tin In a message dated 9/2/99 1:26:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, harr...@dscltd.com writes: << Subj: LVD and notified bodies Date: 9/2/99 1:26:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: harr...@dscltd.com (Kevin Harris) Sender: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Reply-to: harr...@dscltd.com (Kevin Harris) To: emc-p...@ieee.org (EMC-PSTC (E-mail)) Hello Group, Here are some LVD protocol issues for you. If you had a product type tested by one notified body then at some later time a second notified body (doing market surveillance) determines that they feel the product does not meet the LVD ( We are assuming the type tested product was the same as the one examined by the second notified body i.e. This is an interpretation issue only) Who rules here? Can the second notified body deny the first's interpretation? Who could give an "official" interpretation? (the Commission?) Thanks Best Regards, Kevin Harris Manager, Approval Services Digital Security Controls 1645 Flint Road Downsview, Ontario CANADA M3J 2J6 Tel 416 665 8460 Ext. 2378 Fax 416 665 7753 >> --------- 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).
