Re: [PSES] CE non-conformity statistics

[Charlie Blackham]

Regan

Market enforcement reports from the various “AdCos”, Administrative Cooperation 
Groups, can be found at 
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/goods/building-blocks/market-surveillance/organisation/administrative-cooperation-groups_en
 under the “Documents from the AdCo Groups)

As well as a number of reports on EMC, you may wish to look at the R&TTE/RED 
ones as well

Regards
Charlie

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From: Regan Arndt 
Sent: 29 October 2018 23:34
To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [PSES] CE non-conformity statistics

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
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[PSES] CE non-conformity statistics

[Regan Arndt]

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

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