Greetings fellow members,
Out of curiosity, has anyone been privy to any recent EU statistics for those manufacturers who have been subjected to customs investigations pertaining to CE marking, penalties, sales bans, etc. due to, not only selling an unsafe product but, having no CE marking on product, no DoC, insufficient technical files, non-compliance to the directives, etc? The only thing I can find on the web that has something close is from Yvonne Halpaus of QNET, LLC where she recently published a guide on CE marking in 2015. An excerpt is below: *Findings in earlier reports show that 37,600 items of equipment tested in Switzerland showed 1,100 cases of CE Conformity problems. Of 3,962 items that were subjected to rigorous measurements, a high proportion of the devices were found defective (976 altogether) and that none of these met the EMC specified requirements. * *In 23 cases a sales ban was imposed and legal proceedings were launched. Two other Member States also revealed problems when testing against the EMC & Machinery Directive: 33% failed the EMC tests, 47% did not meet the Machinery Directive formal rules and 89% had technical non-conformities. * *These negative findings were not the result of regular surveillance mechanisms, 58% was based on examinations triggered by accidents, 33.3% following inspection of equipment installation, 8.5% based on complaints from competing manufacturers and 0.2% following visits to trade fairs*. Thanks for sharing any information you have. I'm wanting to update my CE marking training slides with some good solid facts. Regan Arndt - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <sdoug...@ieee.org> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
