Quote Originally Posted by lester View Post

There is also a case in the UK where a company building home PC's for retail sale, used all CE marked parts, but failed to test the fully built product. They assumed that by using CE marked parts they could CE mark the final product, without further testing. WRONG, resulted in 3 MONTHS prison sentence for the company director and a big fine.

Lester,

This seams strange. I've been in consulation with our H&S director where I work and he stated that as I've purcahsed components through such suppliers as Farnell, RS etc these components would of had to of been tested to comply with these directives. Therefore there would be no real requirement to have a lab test the assembled device. This would be the equivelent of your example above.

It seems that this process is somewhat of a mind field and nothing is black and white