EU CE Product Compliance
EU CE-Compliance is certainly one issue
Regulatory “CE non-compliance” is nowadays an increasing company risk with potentially serious marketing/legal consequences for manufactures and economic operators. Early Product Risk (EU Blue Guide, 2016) / Compliance Assessment is a must for the manufacturer, economic operators respectively. This includes ensuring technical quality of measures/ protection during the complete product life span. Standards may change after the product is put into service. Production needs to be continuously, statistically sampled for fulfilling standards. One time product testing, even in accredited test labs, is not sufficient. Furthermore who knows e.g. the long term effects of aging in EM-Shields and EMC-Filters?
- Support of Automotive EMC, medical EMC and related areas
Product Compliance Problems are real!
The German Government Authority Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in cooperation with German Customs performed an annual Market Surveillance 2016 in EMC / Radio, for the first time checking 986.789 products, including e-Commerce. Products originated from Germany, EU and Third Countries. Non-Compliance with EMC-D: 38.9% (failed products) Non-Compliance with R&TTE-D (Radio): 50.4 % (failed products), 90 % products showed risks in electrical safety! In 9383 cases a legal import ban was executed for products originating from third countries.
Watch out for EMC “Banana skins” (366 pages):
(Content downloaded from the internet Dec. 2014)
Here are 855 worldwide Electromagnetic Interference/ EMC Non-Compatibility cases.
Well documented (ca. 1950 up to Dec. 2014, downloaded Dec. 2014 from Internet ) by UK, Cherry Clough Consultants Ltd, some contributions by EES Dr Hansen Consulting are listed under #60, #135, #208