I read in !emc-pstc that Nick Williams <nick.willi...@conformance.co.uk> wrote (in <a05111b00ba1d7495884b@[192.168.1.20]>) about 'Location of CE DoCs - electronic copies' on Wed, 11 Dec 2002: >"Whereas it is essential that, before issuing an EC declaration of >conformity, the manufacturer or his authorised representative >established in the Community should provide a technical construction >file; whereas it is not, however, essential that all documentation be >permanently available in a material manner, but it must be made >available on demand; whereas it need not include detailed plans of the >sub-assemblies used in manufacturing the machines, unless knowledge >of these is indispensable in order to ascertain conformity with >essential safety requirements; > >My reading of this is that so long as you can deliver the document on >paper when requested by the authorities, how you store it is up to >you.
It is desperately bad drafting to put *requirements* in the 'Whereas' part of the document. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Interested in professional sound reinforcement and distribution? Then go to http://www.isce.org.uk PLEASE do NOT copy news posts to me by E-MAIL! ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com 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://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
