GE Industrial Solutions EAK guidelines - Manual (Page 5)

EMC GUIDELINES
1. EMC DIRECTIVE, INTERPRETATION CEMEP AND APPLICABLE
STANDARDS’
The EMC directive updated from the points out that each electrical and electronical equipment
marketable in the CEE must be electromagnetically compatible with the external world.
This means the equipment fairly immune to admissible environmental noise-levels and low emitting according
to the allowed
limitations are related to the characteristics of the equipment itself.
Sales channels: Restricted Distribution
Unrestricted Distribution (see Glossary)
Installation environment
Inherent function of the device: direct or indirect
Assembly: Professional Assembler
Obviously, the directive does not point out in detail neither the criterions which have to be applied in order to
judge a device EM-compatible, nor the actions that have to be taken, in order to keep it in that way. That task is
up to the Product Standard concerned with the product; if this would not exist or if the part concerning EMC had
been missed, the product manufacturer must refer to the Generic Standard.
Therefore, being EMC conformant, does not mean high-immunity and low-emissions, but it implies the
adherence to the limits imposed by a product standard, which cannot foresee any limitation.
Seeing the wide range of products to which the directive refers and its legal nature, it became necessary for the
manufacturers of products of the same typology, to give an interpretation of the directive, with no official value,
but whose validity is linked with the acknowledgment of the association of some categories. (The only document
recognized by CE is the directive).
In case of Power Device Systems (PDS, including in this category both single-drives and systems, which are the
assembling of single device, composing a machine) there exists an interpretation, well-known as Document
CEMEP, recognized by the most important European association of categories: ANIE, GAMBICA, GIMELEC,
ZVEI, Manufacturers Denmark.
The document classifies the PDS in four validity fields (CEMEP Validity Fields, see attachment B) according to
the above mentioned characteristics and it
to each of the four classes duties and prohibitions concerning
the following points:
Declaration of conformity
Responsibility of the constructor and installer
The EMC directive is applied to the GE product following the interpretation CEMEP.
In accordance with the interpretation CEMEP GE products, considered that:
sales channel correspond to the definition of Restricted Distribution
the products haven’t any direct function (intrinsic)