EU Authorised Rep for Low Voltage Directive
The low voltage directive (LVD) (2014/35/EU) ensures that electrical equipment within certain voltage limits provides a high level of protection for European citizens, and benefits fully from the single market. It has been applicable since 20 April 2016. The low voltage directive (2014/35/EU) covers health and safety risks on electrical equipment operating with an input ...
EU Authorised Rep for the EMC Directive
The electromagnetic compatibility Directive ensures that electrical and electronic equipment does not generate, or is not affected by, electromagnetic disturbance. The EMC Directive (2014/30/EU) sets out to limit electromagnetic emissions from equipment in order to ensure that, when used as intended, such equipment does not disturb radio and telecommunication, as well as other equipment. The directive also governs the ...
Lithium batteries and Medical Devices in the EU
The safety of battery operated devices is attracting increasingly stringent scrutiny and it has been determined that, as from 1 May 2012, all lithium-ion batteries must be tested and certified to the standard IEC 62133. The exceptions are for information technology equipment (standard IEC 60950-1 applies) and audio/video devices where IEC 60065 applies. This includes ...
ELECTRICAL SAFETY TESTING
It is obvious that test laboratories are getting totally bogged down with the testing to EN ISO 60601-1 3rd edition. We recently got a message from Intertek that they could not take on any more EN ISO 60601-1 3rd edition testing as the risk management phase was taking too long and they did not have ...
