Hi Jim,
A declaration of conformity is required under the EMC regs, but not the safety
regs.
Under the safety regs there are two main categories of product in Australia,
prescribed and non-prescribed. For prescribed equipment to be legally sold it
must be approved by a recognised authority and the equipment is required to
display the approval number when sold.
All other equipment that is not on the prescribed list is called
non-prescribed equipment. This equipment does not require approval and can be
sold without an approval number. I believe the IT equipment we're discussing
is non-prescribed.
However, the law requires anything sold in Australia to comply with Australian
standards. So to some people this means do nothing, and to others it means get
some testing done to an Australian standard. Others go even further and get a
voluntary approval from a recognised authority.
Regards
Barry Esmore
AUS-TICK
The Electrical Equipment Compliance Professionals
281 Lawrence Rd
Mount Waverley
Vic 3149
Australia
Ph: +613 9886 1345
Fax: +613 9013 9552
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Robson <mailto:jrob...@zetron.com>
To: pmerguerian2...@yahoo.com ; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG ; Dan Roman
<mailto:dan.ro...@dialogic.com>
Sent: Saturday, 21 February 2009 3:46 AM
Subject: RE: Australia C-Tick and safety requirements
Peter,
I have been researching this issue also. Can you tell me what
Australian
document says that C-tick marked ITE (non-Telco) equipment must comply (and/or
be tested to) with AS/NZS 60950?
The Telecommunications Labelling (Customer Equipment and Customer
Cabling)
Notice 2001 definitely calls out AS/NZS 60950 for Telco equipment.
The Radiocommunications Labeling (EMC) Notice 2008 which covers ITE
does not
call out AS/NZS 60950.
You also wrote "does not require a safety approval from a state
authority".
Do mean AS/NZS 60950 testing must be done at an approved lab and then cite
AS/NZS 60950 on the Declaration of Conformity?
Regards,
Jim Robson
________________________________
From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of peter
merguerian
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:43 AM
To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG; Dan Roman
Subject: Re: Australia C-Tick and safety requirements
For safety, this is not a perscribed equipment and therefore does not require
a safety approval from a state authority
However, the product must still comply with the Australia safety requirements
in AS/NZS 60950.1. This standard is harmonized with IEC60950-1 so if you
comply with the standard and its' Austrlia devioations, you're good to go.
Peter Merguerian
--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Dan Roman <dan.ro...@dialogic.com> wrote:
From: Dan Roman <dan.ro...@dialogic.com>
Subject: Australia C-Tick and safety requirements
To: "EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG" <EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG>
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 7:23 AM
Hello all,
I’m passing along two questions for a friend that I cannot answer
because
they are outside of my product area of expertise. The product in question is
a passive line filter for use with a PC. It contains overvoltage and line
filtering components (some coils, caps, and MOVs).
1. Does the C-Tick mark for non-telecom equipment require both EMC
and
safety declarations? I know that for the telecom equipment my company
produces, the ACA requires telecom, safety, and EMC (A-tick and C-tick) but I
don’t know if the safety portion is a telecom specific requirement or not.
If the answer is the C-Tick is for EMC only, are there other requirements for
safety or other marks that would apply to this product in Australia? I am
sure there must be.
2. Does a passive device like this fall under EMC requirements?
CISPR
22/EN55022 don’t specify a lower frequency limit exempting products, so this
passive line filter connected to a 50 Hz supply would appear to need testing.
Everything I deal with has clocks in excess of 1 GHz these days so this
question never came up where I work!
It is always interesting getting questions outside of your normal day
to day
experience.
--
Dan Roman, N.C.E.
Product Regulatory Engineer
Dialogic Research Inc.
1515 State Rt. 10
Parsippany, NJ 07054-4538
*mailto:dan.ro...@dialogic.com <mailto:dan.ro...@intel.com>
(Voice: +1 973-967-6485 Fax: +1 973-967-6262
Intranet: http://compliance.eicon.com/
<http://compliance.py.intel.com/>
Internet: http://www.dialogic.com <htt
://www.intel.com/design/network/products/telecom/index.htm>
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