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International electrical approval testing

Recognized International Electrical Approval Testing Agencies... [Pg.146]

Table 14.1 Recognized International Electrical Approval Testing Agencies Country Name Approval Agency... Table 14.1 Recognized International Electrical Approval Testing Agencies Country Name Approval Agency...
The International Electrotechnical Commission (lEC) was founded in 1904 and is now affiliated with the International Organization for Standardization as a Technical Division. The lEC has a Technical Committee 15 on Electrical Insulating Materials, which is concerned with the standardization of testing methods and specifications in this special field. It met in Scheveningen, Netherlands, September 10 to 12,1952. Approved test methods and specifications are issued as recommendations and standards (16),... [Pg.148]

The aim is to exclude unsafe electrical equipment from being marketed in the EU. To ensure this, the equipment has to comply with the relevant harmonised standard in the absence of such a standard, to an International Electrotechnical Commission (lEC) standard or, failing this, to a BSI standard. The manufacturer has to test the equipment himself to prove its safety or have it tested, preferably by an approved testing laboratory, and make a declaration of conformity with the relevant standards. He has to maintain technical documentation containing prescribed information and from 1 January 1997 had to apply the CE mark to the product, or its packaging, or its instruction sheet, or its guarantee certificate. [Pg.89]

USA (examples of government agencies department of transportation, DOT military-MIL National Aeronautical and Space Administration, NASA. Examples of private agencies American National Standards Institute, ANSI, American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM Building Officials Code Administrators International Inc., BOCA Electronic Industries Alliance, EIA FM Approvals Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE National Fire Protection Association, NFPA Underwriters Laboratories, UL). [Pg.915]


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