Bonjour de Montréal,
I can share with you the latest experience I have with BSMI.
First, KTL is the only one in North America to be accredited for Korean
regulations, not Taiwan. In fact, they are not accredited for BSMI as any
other Canadian Laboratory until Canada sign a Mutual Recognition Agreement
(MRA) with Taiwan.
2) The USA listed laboratories in the BSMI site could only test American
products. So Canadian or Israeli manufacturer could not use this avenue to
get the BSMI approval. This have been confirm by the BSMI Official and the
FCC. The wording of their letter of agreement clearly states that.
3) For other countries laboratories listed on the BSMI Web site (from
Germany, UK the Netherlands and Singapore), I don't know if they have the
same constraints, but according to the conversations we had with BSMI
officials, they possibly will lose their accreditation since the BSMI wants
to follow the MRA route for any laboratory outside Taiwan. Since they are
still listed in the BSMI Web site, I presumed that this is still to come
and that they are still active to deliver test reports but may be for their
own market. Bad news for the European countries, Taiwan does not recognize
the European union so every country has to get in line to negotiated a
separate MRA.
4) The only route right now for any other countries is to test in Taiwan.
5) Even if you test anywhere, you still have to produce a test report that
is going to be examined by BSMI. The experience we got is that their are
very specific in the amount of detail that they want in the report. If you
were familiar with the old FCC certification process, you have top follow
that but with a lot more details. For instance they like to see an actual
copy of the intended label or at least the exact dimensions.
I hope that this information will be useful for you.
Best regards,
Benoît Nadeau
At 13:55 11/27/2000 +0200, Peter Merguerian wrote:
Hello All,
What's the latest on BCIQ?
1. Is KTL Ottawa still the only authorized lab outside Taiwan?
2. What is the fastest way to get the approval?
3. Is safety required by BCIQ? If so, what is acceptable (CB Test Report,
UL Listing Report, CE Self Declaration file....).
Looking forward to your responses.
Peter Merguerian
Managing Director
Product Testing Division
I.T.L. (Product Testing) Ltd.
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Or Yehuda 60251, Israel
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e-mail: pmerguer...@itl.co.il
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