Tania, We have not "harmonized" US safety mark demonstrating compliance with UL1950: UL, ETL, NRTL. I've been asked a rhetorical question "which US mark is better". Europeans have at least a single CE mark which, in addition, covers EMC.
Regards, > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant, Tania (Tania) [SMTP:tgr...@lucent.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 3:03 PM > To: Biggs, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, NA); 'Peter E. Perkins' > Cc: PSNetwork > Subject: RE: IEC950 vs. EN 60950 > > > What Pete is describing is quite fitting for Europe and the US. > However, > in the rest of the world, what is accepted and/or required varies as much > as > the different flora and fauna around the world. South Africa, for > example, > does not care for compliance to an EN60 950 document, but will accept > compliance via a CB Scheme report to IEC 950 (but not to EN60 950!). > What we do, therefore, is have the CB report and Certificate reference > both > EN60 950 and the IEC 60 950 document!!! > There are other countries (and since their requirements are constantly > changing, I will not point them out here) that will accept US safety > and/or > FCC Part 15 compliance. Other countries will require compliance and/or > testing to their own national standards in their own country. You need > to > approach each case individually at any given time since requirements, > agencies, addresses, and even governments are constantly changing. > > Tania Grant, Lucent Technologies, Octel Messaging Division > tgr...@lucent.com > > > ---------- > From: Peter E. Perkins [SMTP:peperk...@compuserve.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 1:46 PM > To: Biggs, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, NA) > Cc: PSNetwork > Subject: IEC950 vs. EN 60950 > > > > Daniel & PSNet, > > IEC 950 - now IEC 60950 - is an international standard, meaning > that all countries participating in the development of the standard bring > their codes and practices to the table and some subset of the same is > included in the final standard. > > EN 60950 is the European version of that standard. It includes > specific Euro codes and practices which were not agreed to by the > international community. These differences are important and must be > adhered to in complying with the standard. You cannot claim compliance to > the EN for CE marking purposes without meeting these deltas. > > In the same way, UL 1950 is the American version of IEC 950. It > includes many American changes that result from our codes and practices > here. In order to get NRTL certification to this standard, the equipment > must comply with these deltas, too. > > From a certification point of view, the IEC standard is not > important. The equipement must meet the locally adopted version for > compliance. From a standards development or future looking viewpoint the > IEC standard is driving the local standards in the highest or most general > way. > > The manufacturer's dream is to see all of these standards be > exactly equal in wording - i.e. no local deltas. Probably not in my > lifetime - there are some basic underlying requirements in each market. > In > America, for instance, the NEC contains basic requirements which will not > change soon; plus there are legally driven requirements based upon case > law > that companies have to meet in America - such as the use of ANSI labels > else the product markings are deficient. > > So, get the local standards and comply with them... that's the > requirement. > > :>) br, Pete Perkins > > - - - - - > > Peter E Perkins > Principal Product Safety Consultant > Tigard, ORe 97281-3427 > > +1/503/452-1201 phone/fax > > p.perk...@ieee.org email > > visit our website: > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/peperkins > > - - - - - > > --------- > 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).
