Courtland, It has always been my understanding that the Company/President or VP of Engineering is ultimately responsible for product compliance. Ignorance of Regulatory law at a senior management level is not a valid excuse. Granted the Compliance person may be terminated in the process, but the responsibility resides with the Company.
Mark Schmidt -----Original Message----- From: Courtland Thomas [mailto:ctho...@patton.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:06 PM To: emcpost Subject: Responsibilities Hello group, I have a question concerning responsibility when signing off on compliance issues. Who is ultimately responsible for the product, the compliance engineer or the company. Let's say that a device has been 'Self Declared' to be 'CE' compliant. The D of C is signed by the compliance engineer as well as the President of the company. For some reason, whatever it may be, the unit is found to be non-compliant. Who gets locked up? I may be exaggerating somewhat, but you get the idea. Courtland Thomas ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org
