Approved bodies

Submit the final product for approval body safety and RFI/EMI testing and approval. Some modifications are usually required, but if you have done your homework in the previous design stages, these can be minor. 

Screen room testing per approval body specification... 

Approving body Local ethics committees DRA N/A DRA regional ethics committees DRA Local medical ethics committees Specialized commission but approved by Min of Health NDA INH As part of MCAZ... 

The American National Standards Institute is an approval body for voluntary standards effort. 

Modified Third Country list of 94/92, delayed implementation until 1 January 1997. Superseded by 314/97 below Indicates finalisation of evaluations and presents Modified Third Country list including addition of a Dutch inspection body as an approved body in Hungary... 

Have been properly inspected and certified by an approved body during production and/or processing. 

Copies of hazardous area approval certificates for all applicable equipment should be provided. The approval certificates are issued by national or international approvals bodies, including ... 

British Approvals Service for Electrical Equipment in Flammable Atmospheres (BASEEEA) and Physikalische-Technische Bimdesanstalt (PTB), Germany, which, along with other European approvals bodies, provides certification to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) standards... 

Data on fast pyrolysis liquid should be provided to the UK DETR - Dangerous Goods Branch to permit an application to the EU for the listing of fast pyrolysis liquid. This automatically provides access to the analogous approvals bodies in 34 countries. 

API is not an approval body but certifies lubricant quality, developing its Service Symbol (Fig. 17.1) in 1983, issuing licenses to oil companies for promotion of their lubricants. The symbol s centre circle shows the lubricant SAE viscosity grade, the outer ring upper half contains the API performance classification (only current performance qualities shown, obsolete performance levels may not be used). The outer ring lower half indicates an energy-conserving or fuel economy standard. API s... 

When customers see an approval mark they know and trust (i.e., VDE/TUV/ BG) they can be assured that the testing was performed to exacting quality standards and that an accurate test report and certificate exist. Figure 4-2 shows the hierarchy of European conformity acceptance. With today s liberalized approach (CE = self test), where testing and approvals for most products are no longer compulsory, the quality of the approval mark is more important than ever. There is a greater potential for abuse under the new system that must be counteracted by effective surveillance checks by the authorities, users, and competitors. Product manufacturers and suppliers should utilize testing and approval bodies with the... 

One issue of vital inportance is to establish an early contact to the approving body and the Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) and work in close co-operation from the very beginning to avoid that safety related issues are raised very late and cause lots of additional effort. 

In an ideal world, the structure, style and content of a safety case would be enough to convince an approving body of the credibility of the developing organization. However, in reality credibility needs to be explicit and this could be achieved by including some or all of the evidence mentioned above. This is not widely understood and so situations can arise where a company may refuse to give any evidence of individual competence (or even the names of individuals who had been involved in the project). In worst-case scenarios, these types of problems may lead to projects failing to deliver. 

Apparatus of the double-insulated or all-insulated types need not be earthed provided it complies with the Electricity Regulations 1908 (Portable Apparatus Exemption) Order 1968. This order, in exempting such apparatus from the earthing requirements, makes it a condition that the apparatus is clearly marked (i) with maker s name, model and type number (ii) with an indication that it has been certified, by an approved body, as being apparatus conforming to the approved standard for such apparatus. It is also a condition that the insulation of the apparatus is maintained so as to prevent danger. ... 

Where a high risk machine is not manufactured to harmonised standards or no harmonised standards exist, an example of tiie machine must be made available to the approved body who must satisfy themselves that... 

An approved bod) is appointed by a Member State (in the UK by the Secretary of State) and notified to the European Commission as an organisation which has the qualifications and necessary resources to undertake the examination and certification work. Approved bodies may charge the manufacturer fees for the certification work it imdertakes on his behalf (reg. 19). 

The name and address of the approved body and the number of the certificate of approvai where appiicabie... 

Operating system and user application software tools are approved for safety by third party approval bodies. 

Software and hardware integration tested by approval bodies. 

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