Hello, The construction product directive is one of the most recent directives affecting fire detection devices. Currently if you have a smoke detector you would like to sell in the EU then you have to go through all the local national agencies (ANPI, VdS LPCB etc) in Europe to obtain approvals. As of next March (when the first standard get published in the OJ for the CPD ) the manufacturer can now go to any one of those agencies ( provided they have been listed as a certification body under the new scheme) and be approved across the EU. Hooray say I! Chop tens of thousands of Euros off my testing bill! Unfortunately it is not all as it seems! The CPD writers in their wisdom have a provision in the directive that not only does the notified body have to do type testing and regular auditing but they must also certify the quality plan!. The certified bodies take this to mean that they must do something like an ISO9000 certification and audit plan. I'm wondering why the directive was written this way. If one already has a quality plan in place that is registered, why do we have to do it again? It seems to be counterproductive to say on one hand that a particular agency is qualified to assess quality plans and then have a directive that says otherwise. This also has the effect that if I choose one certification body to test something then I must choose them again and again or else face re evaluation of my quality plan by yet another certification body. What a convenient clause for non competition amongst the certification bodies!
Is there anyone out there that may have contributed to the Construction Product Directive that might shed some light on this subject? Am I missing something? Was that the intent of the directive or perhaps this wasn't foreseen? Grumbling complete Best Regards, Kevin Harris Manager, Approvals and CAD Services Digital Security Controls 3301 Langstaff Road Concord, Ontario CANADA L4K 4L2 Tel: +1 905 760 3000 Ext. 2378 Fax +1 905 760 3020 Email: kevinharr...@dsc.com ------------------------------------------- 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"
