On Sun, 22 May 2005 18:32:46 +0000, alan ralph wrote:

Hi All,

Does anyone know what the situation is with regards to non-CE approved hifi
items being used in the UK. I believe if you are a manufacturer ? or dealer
? you should only sell CE approved equipment in the UK, but with so much
equipment being sold on ebay and the internet worldwide it must be difficult
to enforce.


CE marking is concerned with allowing movement of equipment through the
EEC. Anything which is not going to leave its country of manufacture
doesn't require it. Also, it has nothing to do with quality. It basically
means that when the equipment was designed it was designed to certain
specifications and the design data and those specifications are traceable.
Note that it isn't a test certificate - it may "prove" that the equipment
was designed to comply with the LV Directive, but it doesn't mean that a
particular item of equipment has been individually tested to prove that
compliance.

You should expect to see CE marking on, say, German equipment sold in the
UK, but not necessarily UK or American built equipment. CE marking only
applies to new equipment.

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