It's been my understanding that the various branches of TUV reside and oversee product safety in specific regions within Germany. And that being in a sense franchises, they compete directly with each other outside of Germany.
It's also been my understanding that in a similar way though more subtle, the various branches of UL within the US also compete with each other. In other words, even though the Santa Clara facility is conviently right down the road from me, I could send product off to Melville. Any profits made by Melville aren't really benefited by Santa Clara. The difference between TUV and UL is that in some cases, and I'm going out on a limb, TUV Rheinland might not accept results from TUV Product Services although that would have to be some extreme case IMO. UL branches on the other hand accept each others results. Corrections anyone? - Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- 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...@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://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
