At 23:24 +0200 17/8/07, M. Loerzer-Mobile (GLOBALNORM) wrote: >Hi, > >does anybody has useful links or information for "world-wide type >approval requirements" of trailers with on-board >compressors especially the following questions are of interest: >
I don't think there will be any single global solution - the requirements are too different and complex in major markets such as the EU, US, China and Aus/NZ, never mind smaller markets such as S. Africa, Argentina, Mexico and Russia, each of which I would expect to have their own national requirements. >- General information concerning the type approval for >trailers worldwide Commercial road vehicles are still largely an individual state competence - even in the EU harmonisation is fairly limited. Also, harmonisation for vehicles works in a distinctly different way to harmonisation for products covered by the CE marking directives. >- Emissions standards (exhaust and noise) for portable >compressors have to comply to in Europe / North-America / >South-America and Africa? EU is fairly straightforward - 2000/14/EC for noise emissions and 97/68/EC for exhaust emissions. I don't know about other markets. > >- Product standards for portable compressors? EN 1012-1 for the EU. > >- Content of the new EU directive (planned or >finished?) concerning the type approval of trailers There's a Directive concerned with commercial vehicle homologation due in the Autumn, I'm told, but I expect it will run in parallel with individual state road vehicle construction requirements for some years to come. > >- Are there any specific regulations to consider (concerning >emission standards / road safety / product requirements) while >exporting portable compressors to countries within the EU and >outside the EU? Within the EU they are covered by the Machinery Directive, among others. > >- Which French law specifies that compressors have to use an >electric engine in some city centres? Don't know about this, but article 100a dictates that this must be an in service requirement, not a supply side requirement. > > - Homologation standards in South-America and Africa? Don't know about this but if your customer has representation in these places, I can probably help you to formulate some questions which their local agents can ask of the relevant people. Drop me a line if you need some more help, Michael. It might be worth having a chat on the phone next week - I don't have all the answers by any means but I might be able to help you to clarify where to go for some of them. Nick. - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
