For a lot of smaller companies over seas the only solution is to find someone who actually is ready to hold the MDoc and sign for your product. This means that he wants to be covered against government claims (going to jail). These guys want you to sign a contract protecting them against the consequences if your product fails. To protect them in the case that the manufacturer goes bankrupt, AND the product fails, substantial amounts of money are to be reserved. Holding the file can be expensive thus. Having good test reports with convincing data and a firm quality control system will lead to lower costs. Our firm actually hold the files of several clients that we did the testing for, in this way, as WE did the testing we can be very confident that the product actually does comply. We require however annual inspection of the equipment brought to market, and reserve the right to end holding files in case of non-compliance. The annual fees are dependent of the total amount of sold equipment inspection costs.
Regards, Gert Gremmen Ing. == Ce-test, Qualified testing == Consultants in EMC, Electrical safety and Telecommunication Compliance tests for European standards and ce-marking Member of NEC/IEC voting committee for EMC. Our Web presence: http://www.cetest.nl List of current harmonized standards http://www.cetest.nl/emc-harm.htm 15 great tips for the EMC-designer http://www.cetest.nl/features01.htm -----Original Message----- From: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org] On Behalf Of Peter E. Perkins Sent: donderdag 4 maart 1999 5:50 To: PSNetwork Subject: CE marking - self-certification and the long arm of the law PSNet & Richard, The legal questions can only be answered by European lawyers and courts. As far as I know, there have not been any cases which looked to hold non-Europeans responsible to the extent they would be fined or serve jail time. If it is a major problem we can expect international negotiations to extradite folks for this. But practically, if the product is sold by a company which has any European presence - a subsidiary, dealer or importer - the courts probably could find a way to hold one of those folks responsible. I know of a case where the President of a sub was jailed because a product didn't meet European safety requirements. I have heard of another case where an executive of a large company was handcuffed and taken away at immigration because he was named as being responsible for some action that was not allowed in Europe - unfortunately, this poor fellow was coming to Europe for a vacation, not on company business and his wife and family were just left standing there to fend for themselves... For smaller companies, I recommend that they get one of their Euro contacts - importers, dealers, etc. - to countersign the MDoC to provide the 'going to jail' person. There are, also, some firms (legal firms, as I remember) who will sign and hold your MDoC, etc for a nominal fee... What other routes might be available? perhaps others have some ideas... - - - - - 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, j...@gwmail.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, j...@gwmail.monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
