Yaskawa DR2 Sigma Servo - Manual (Page 428)

MEASURES TO SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF EMC DIRECTIVE
7.1.2 What is CE Marking?
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7.1 What is European Safe Standard?
This section outlines the contents of EN standard, CE marking and EMC directive.
7.1.1 What is EN Standard? 416 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.1.2 What is CE Marking? 416 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.1.3 EMC Directive 417 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.1.4 Certification Body TÜV Authorized by EU 417 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.1.1 What is EN Standard?
1) Board of directors, which consisted of EC cabinet members, provided “EC directive” in
1985 when the European Union was still called EC, with the purpose of management of
products from each area of Europe under one standard over applicable standards of
member countries.
2) Concrete standard to satisfy “EC directive” is “EN standard (European standard)”.
At the present time, they have instructions for 12 items such as machine directive, low−
voltage directive, etc. in addition to EMC directive specified for each of dozens of stan-
dards.
7.1.2 What is CE Marking?
1) “CE marking” is a mark to indicate that a product is a safe product conforming to the
protection level specified by EC directive.
Attaching this mark to a machine indicates that the machine is a product conforming to
EN standards based on EC directive.
In Europe, every industrial machine has been obliged to have CE marking by machine
directive since the 1st of January, 1995.
2) “CE” is an abbreviation of Communauté Européenne in French, which means European
Communities (EC).
After an increase of members, the name has been changed to EU (European Union), but
EC is still used for the name of the directive.
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