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In message <2a93eb060805020512se98e1d4x8d63d1a2a755f...@mail.gmail.com>, dated Fri, 2 May 2008, Grace Lin <graceli...@gmail.com> writes: >Last March, I had an oppotunity to sit with an EU policy maker for a >dinner. I expressed FCC's position about immunity requriement. He >agreed with it. However, it maybe not easy to withdraw the immunity >requriements from the EMC Directive. For manufacturers, it is not a >big deal to meet both emission and immunity requriements (since EU >requirements are self declaration). However, if other countries follow >up and post in-country testing requriements, this would be a big issue >for manufactrurers. You were told only part of the story. From the point of view of the spectrum management authorities, the PRIMARY purpose of EMC control is to reduce to an acceptable minimum the number of complaints of interference. This is because they are costly to investigate. I don't know what the history of EMC is in USA, but in Europe in the 60s and 70s there were many problems caused by lack of immunity, not excessive emissions. This was particularly evident in Germany, where emission control was intense. So it was, and still is, very much in the interests of both responsible manufacturers and the spectrum management authorities to have control of both emissions AND immunity embodied in the EMC Directive. Since this is unlikely to be a peculiarly European phenomenon, I think we can expect immunity requirements to be introduced where they do not already exist. However, mandatory in-country testing is a barrier to trade and must be opposed, in favour of mutual recognition agreements. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Murphy's Law has now been officially re-named The Certainty Principle John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - 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
