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I am replying to your questions concerning AS/NZS 3260:1993. This standard is still current. It will eventually be superseded by AS/NZS 60950:2000 "Safety of information technology equipment". The updated standard is an Australian modification of IEC 60950:1999. Australian standard AS/NZS 3260:1993 may be superseded in 20030605 by AS/NZS 60950:2000. At present both standards are still current. When the standard is superseded it will be deleted from the StandardsWatch program. Australian standard AS/NZS 3260:1993 forms part of the Australian Communications Authority's compliance program for manufacturers and suppliers of telecommunications equipment. Compliance to the above standard forms part of the A-Tick approval scheme for different types of telecommunications equipment. The standard is referenced in ACA TS 001-1997 "Safety requirements for customer equipment". This standard is referenced under certain sections of the ACA's Telecommunications Cabling Notice. The ACA techical standard has not been updated to include references to AS/NZS 60950:2000. Further advice on the legal status of AS/NZS 60950:2000 should be sought from the Australian Communications Authority. Their contact details are included on their internet site (http://www.aca.gov.au) Standards Australia's subsiduary (Quality Assurance Services) is the administrator of the IEC CB scheme. Companies supplying IT equipment can arranged approval to the CB scheme. Quality Assurance Services should accept test reports to AS/NZS 3260:1993 and AS/NZS 60950:2000. The CB scheme may be able to be used to arrange tests that may be required under the ACA's A-Tick scheme. Contact details for QAS are included on their internet site (http://www.qas.com.au). The Manager for the CB scheme in Australia is Mr Roy Jacobi (e-mail:roy.jac...@qas.com.au). The conditions for the scheme are included in the CB internet site (http://www.cbscheme.org) Copies of Australian standards are available for down-load from Standards Australia's internet site (http://www.standards.com.au) -----Original Message----- From: John Woodgate [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] Sent: 11 October 2001 23:00 To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: AS/NZS 60950 I read in !emc-pstc that Peter Tarver <peter.tar...@sanmina.com> wrote (in <nebbkemlgllmjofmopleielmcoaa.peter.tar...@sanmina.com>) about 'AS/NZS 60950', on Thu, 11 Oct 2001: >Someone suggested I go to the ACA web site to look for the >requested information. As a testament to my previous >research on the topic, I present the following. > >In my own research, I have found the Telecommunications >Labelling (Customer Equipment and Customer Cabling) Notice >2001. In this document, in Schedule 1 Technical standards >and compliance levels, Part 1 Interpretation, Section 1 , >paragraph (3), is a reference to TS001-1997 (Safety >Requirements for Customer Equipment) as the applicable >standard. TS001-1997, unless amended at some later date >than my copy, clearly points to AS3260 and not AS60950. Something like this applies also in UK. There is a purely Telecoms safety standard that applies to the telecoms cabling and outlets in the subscriber's premises, and to ordinary telephones, and then a different standard, e.g. EN60950 that applies to ITE connected to the telecoms system. Where the two standard deal with the same topic, they are, or should be, technically identical. The same may, or, of course, may not, apply in Oz. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Eat mink and be dreary! ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ 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: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ 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: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
