Products that have already been placed on the market (prior to implementation of the new directive) require no change, but this is a piece-part consideration, not a "product line" consideration.
As with several recent directive re-writes, the new EMCD has this interesting phrase, "References to directive 89/63/EEC shall be construed as references to this directive [i.e., 2004/108/EC] and should be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex VII" (article 14). I *believe* this allows declarations to the old directive to be read as declarations to the new directive, but, of course, you must meet the criteria of the new directive. Note: There are some significant differences in the new directive that may warrant attention, particularly regarding marks and information (article 9). Lauren Crane (Mr.) Product Regulatory Analyst Corporate Product EHS Lead Applied Materials Inc. - external use - Save paper and trees! Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. "White, Ian" <ianwh...@spiraxsarco.com> Sent by: emc-p...@ieee.org 05/16/2008 09:39 AM To "IEEE Forum (E-mail)" <emc-p...@ieee.org> cc Subject The New EMC Directive and the D of C Can l have your views on the following please. As l understand it all new Electronic products should now have their Declaration of Conformities to the new EMC Directive 2004/108/EC, but products already on the market can still quote the old Directive in their D of C's It is a common practice for company's to take anther manufactures product and put their company logo on - badge engineer it basically. In the past they issued a D of C in their name, based on the other manufacturers D of C. During this change over period if a company wishes to badge engineer a product, but the D of C is to the old Directive what should they do : 1) Write a D of C to the old Directive under the argument that product is in the market already anyway - if only with a different name 2) Ask the supplier manufacturer for an updated D of C. There a small differences between the two Directives. Thanks for your help Ian White - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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