I read in !emc-pstc that John Roche <john_ro...@compuserve.com> wrote (in <200302050650_mc3-1-2876-4...@compuserve.com>) about 'CE marking and additional information found here' on Wed, 5 Feb 2003:
>A few years ago we were forever having it drummed into us >what the CE mark meant and that we should always look for it when >purchasing a product. Depending on which type of product you buy the >consumer nowadays sometimes (mistakenly) also takes this to be a sign of >product quality. Yes, well, that advice is contradictory. The end-user doesn't need to look for the CE mark, **because it's not a quality mark**, but the retailer does need to look for, because selling a product that should conform to the applicable Directives and be CE marked, but isn't, is an offence. -- 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 Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
