| kamleung |
2011-01-03 16:35 |
To comply with the Australia EMC regulatory, the suppliers must satisfy four basic requirements:
1) Ensure that the product complies with the appropriate mandated EMC standard.
2) Make and hold a DoC (Declaration of Conformity).
3) Prepare and keep compliance records.
4) Label the product with the C-Tick mark
Once these basic requirements have been satisfied, a product can be offered for sale without the involvement of ACA or RSM. The Australia government also prints a booklet to explain his EMC requirements. For your convenience, the PDF booklet is uploaded to this forum for your reference.
About Declaration of Conformity (DoC) it is a statement signed by the supplier certifying that the product has been tested and found to comply with any required standards. The Australia government department has put a DoC template on his official webpage and you may download the tempate at the government link below:
HTTP://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib310117/c02-suppliers_declaration_of_conformity.doc
In view of your questions, some information can be shared as below:
1) Please read my PNG file for the official requirements, such as color, location, scale and etc. The C-Tick artwork can be downloaded at the government link (http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/telcomm/stds/compliance_marks/c-tick.zip)
2) If the business registration of Company A is still valid after merging with Company B, then you may use the N-number of Company A. Otherwise, you should use Company B's registration number.
3) In fact, C-Tick Mark needs not to apply through the Australia Authority. Hence, you just test the product with your own laboratory and then build your own compliance folder. Although suppliers are not required to submit the product or proof of compliance to the regulatory bodies at this stage, they must retain a compliance folder containing the DoC and all required compliance records.
Required compliance records include test reports indicating compliance margins, a description of the product and all documentation that clearly identifies it (e.g., photographs, block diagrams, drawings, and circuit diagrams), and paperwork showing the product's brand name, model number, etc.
Compliance records, which must be in English, can be kept electronically. Records must be kept for five years after the product ceases to be supplied in Australia or New Zealand. Hard copies of compliance documentation must be made available to ACA or RSM for audit or investigation within 10 business days of a written request from the regulatory body.
A supplier must complete and retain a DoC every time a new product or model of a product is to be marketed. If a product has had changes that are either cosmetic or that do not alter its RF emission characteristics, then compliance is presumed under the DoC maintained for the earlier model. In situations where variants exist, the supplier must add a signed statement to the original compliance records outlining the changes made and the reasons for using a single DoC for marketing. |
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