Certificate of Compliance for Low Voltage Directive

[quality1]

Hi Cove friends,

Our Sales dept have been asking if they can get a certificate of conformance or similar for the following EU directives on our products:

LVD (Low Voltage Directive= 2006/95/EC)
EMCD (Electro-Magnetic Compatibility Directive= 2004/108/EC),
RTTED (Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Directive= 1999/5/EC)
ErPD (Energy related Products Directive= 2009/125/EC)

We manufacturer memory modules and HDD upgrade kits mainly for the office equipment sectors and I am not familiar with these directives. I don't think you can do that without the product actually having the CE marking? Any inputs is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

 

[Ronen E]

Hi,

One can only issue a "Declaration of Conformity" with an EC Directive once they have actually followed the prescribed process (in each directive) for doing so, and all applicable requirements have been met. Attention: this wouldn't be a 5-minute-process in most cases.

With Directives leading to CE marking, the CE mark can only be effected after the compliant issue of such DoC.

I'm not from your filed so I can elaborate on the specifics, sorry. The above is how it generally works with the EC New Approach Directives.

Cheers,
Ronen.

 

[CharlieUK]

We manufacturer memory modules and HDD upgrade kits mainly for the office equipment sectors

Assuming that you make these type of products of general office equipment then the following is likely to hold true.

LVD
These type of devices are outside the scope of the LVD assuming they operate above 50V ac/75V DC and not sold with external mains-dc supply.
However you can have the units assessed against a suitable standard such as EN60950-1 which will help end users when they integrate your component into their end product. Also, for end products sold into North America and requiring NRTL listing (CSA, UL etc.) UL60950 requires many components to be NRTL recognised - this is why you'll often find ULr mark on on HDD units.

EMC
These type of products are within scope of EMC directive.
Look at section 1.2.3 of the "Guide for the EMC Directive 2004/108/EC (8th February 2010)" at http :// ec. europa .eu/enterprise/sectors/electrical/documents/emc/guidance/index_en.htm - DEAD 404 LINK UNLINKED
If you sell ONLY to system integrators you will fall outside the scope of the EMC directive but if I were them, I would be looking for evidence that your products complied with EMC requirements anyway as it will assist with compliance of end product.

R&TTE
Radio modules are within scope, but they must have a radio transmitter (WiFi, bluetooth, zigbee, RFID etc. ) and/or a "non-broadcast" radio receiver which includes all those already mentioned and receivers such as GPS, but not radio/TV receivers.
Your products don't sound like they contain any radio devices so this doesn't apply. If R&TTE did apply, then you would not seperately declare to EMC and LVD as these would be covered by R&TTE. The R&TTE also removes the 50/75 lower voltage limit in the LVD.

RoHS
Your products are within scope of this.

GPSD
Your products are covered by the General Product Safety Directive if the LVD doesn't apply - however this is not a CE marking directive.

The "homepage" for Harmonised Standards at http ://ec .europa .eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/harmonised-standards/index_en.htm (DEAD 404 LINK UNLINKED) provides links to Harmonised

Charlie