Hi Richard, There could be several ways to go depending on if harmonized standards exist for your device or not. I will assume that at the time you had it tested originally, they did not since you used Annex IV and not Annex III. Somewhat relevant to this topic, we had used Annex IV on a radio device last year(Harmonized standards did not exist), and this year with a new radio of the very same type we were able to apply annex III(all of the standards were harmonized recently. Lucky me!). Anyway, we have 2 of the same type radios, one that carries a NB number and one that does not(You can imagine the questions I get from our manufacturing folks). The reason I bring this up is, you could possibly convert to Annex III with the new model if the standards that apply to it have been harmonized and draw up a DoC that includes both models, if you feel no new testing is warranted. If harmonize standards still do not exist, then disregard all of the above and contact your notified body.
Regarding your second question, yes I believe you need to Notify the spectrum authorities of the new model and I have a story to tell on this issue also. Basically, we sell a radio to a customer of ours however they wanted to give it there own model number. I contacted my Notified Body and for a small fee of course, they re-issued the statement of opinion including the new variant and advised us(or the OEM) to notify all of the member states of this new model. They did nothing to the TCF which I found to be interesting since that is the ultimate way to show compliance of a device. I suppose the SoO(New Acronym for Statement of Opinion) is sufficient enough. Hope this helps..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam Wismer Lead Regulatory Engineer/ Radio Approvals Engineer LXE, Inc. (770) 447-4224 Ext. 3654 Visit Our Website at: http://www.ems-t.com -----Original Message----- From: wo...@sensormatic.com [mailto:wo...@sensormatic.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:35 AM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RTTE Notification A radio product subject to the RTTE Directive was assessed by a Notified Body under Annex IV, was notified to the national spectrum authorities and is currently being marketed. Design changes are being made to the product that do not affect the spectrum parameters, but the model number will be changed to distinguish the two products. Is it necessary to communicate the new model number to the Notified Body and/or the spectrum authorities? 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: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
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