When Melanie said:
Quote Originally Posted by Melanie
I've a copy of "EMC for Product Designers - Meeting the European Directive" ISBN 0750649305 sitting on my shelf.
This in itself wouldn't "officially" be enough. How can you say something meets the standard if you don't have an actual copy of the standard?

Even Lester says "just read the legislation, it's not difficult".

Here is the problem with the whole system. They "SELL" the standards. They aren't free to download for review. It really makes it hard on the small entrepreneur to get a product into Europe. Some of them aren't cheap either. I'm in the laser safety business and IEC 60825 alone has 15 parts which cost ~$65 each. On top of that I need the machinery directive, the low voltage directive, the EMC directive, and most likely something else I've never thought of.

I guess paying for a testing house to tell you that your product meets the standards is worth the $6k to $12k.

In the end, I think Europe loses out on some innovative products because people are afraid to introduce something new. At the very least, movement of products into Europe is delayed because of the added bureaucracy.

They say it will take something like 20 years to get back to where we can put a man on the moon. It's hard to believe we once did it in 8. It all boils down to bureauracy.

John