Thanks Brian for giving us an updating on the status in Switzerland. Does it exist any web-site describing the Swiss EMC, telecom and safety requirements ?
Best regards Amund Westin, Oslo/Norway On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:35:23 +0100 "Brian Jones" <e...@brianjones.co.uk> wrote: > >Richard and everyone > >The directives do not apply in Switzerland and therefore the CE marking has >no legal significance. As far as EMC is concerned, Switzerland has its own >laws including the Law of Electricity 1902, The Law of Telecommunications >1991, the Law of Broadcasting 1991, and Ordinance SR 734, Article 4 of which >contains EMC provisions. This was the position when I last checked in >detail a couple of years ago. I am not aware of any changes, but perhaps >one of the list members from Switzerland could update us if anything has >changed recently, and on other provisions such as safety. > >Best wishes > >Brian > >Brian Jones >EMC Consultant and Competent Body Signatory > >Keep up to date with EMC Matters newsletter >e-mail newslet...@brianjones.co.uk for a free sample in .pdf format > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <wo...@sensormatic.com> >To: <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> >Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:29 PM >Subject: RE: European Economic Area > > >> >> Thanks for the clarification, Brian. What is the legal state of the >> Directives and CE marking in Switzerland? If they don't apply, what does? >> >> Richard Woods >> >> ---------- >> From: Brian Jones [SMTP:e...@brianjones.co.uk] >> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 8:56 AM >> To: wo...@sensormatic.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org >> Subject: European Economic Area >> >> Richard and everyone >> >> The three EFTA countries which are parties to the European Economic >> Area >> agreement are Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein. They apply the >> directives >> as if they were members of the EU. Although Switzerland is an EFTA >> member, >> it did not join the others in EEA membership. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Brian Jones >> EMC Consultant and Competent Body Signatory >> >> Keep up to date with EMC Matters newsletter >> e-mail newslet...@brianjones.co.uk for a free sample in .pdf format >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <wo...@sensormatic.com> >> To: <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> >> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:17 PM >> Subject: RE: CE Mark and GOST >> >> >> > >> > One slight correction. The Directives and CE marking also legally >> apply in >> > the EFTA member states: Norway, Iceland and Switzerland and >> perhaps a >> couple >> > more that I don't recall at the moment. >> > >> > Richard Woods >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> 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. > -- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su ------------------------------------------- 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.
