FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS

EN(IEC) Standards Adjustment Equipment

What is EC Directives and CE Marking?

(1) EC Directives

EC directives are established by European Commission to require safety uniformity for all products which are brought into European markets. The governments of EU member countries are required to revise their domestic laws and ordinances so as to be consistent with EC directives. The products of Fuji Electric FA components & systems Co., Ltd., are subject to the following three directives:

Machinery Directive
EMC (Electro-Magnetic Compatibility) Directive
Low Voltage Directive

Machinery Directive, EMC Directive and Low Voltage Directive stipulate the safety standards of machines, electro-magnetic compatibility, and the electrical safety of equipment which are operated at 50 to 1000 V AC or 75 to 1500 V DC, respectively.

(2) CE Marking

CE marking is stuck on the products which have cleared the mandatory safety requirements stipulated in EC directives. For details, refer to CE (Conformite Europeenne) Marking Directive. When the EC Directive takes effect, it will actually be impossible to export or sell the products covered by this directive in the EU area without a CE marking. (CE-marked products can freely be marketed in the EU area.) For products to receive CE marking, they must satisfy the following items:

Must satisfy the mandatory safety requirements of all related directives. For general specifications, etc., which are not stipulated in these directives, they must conform to EN standards (see the next paragraph).
Must prepare and keep Technical Documentation and Declaration of Conformity.

(3) EN Standards

Unified standards in the EU area. Product application requirements are published in the EC Official Journal. It shows the concrete standards for satisfying mandatory safety requirements of EC directives, and when conforming to EN standards, products are judged as satisfying the mandatory safety requirements of EC directives. The actual items are almost the same as those of corresponding ISO/IEC standards and established by CEN (Comite Europeen de Normalisation) or CENELEC (Comite Europeen de Normalisation Electrotechnique).
However, because many items of EN Standards are now under review, to ISO or IEC conformity is required to when there is no corresponding items in the EN Standards.

List of FUJI's products for EN(IEC) Standards Adjustment Equipment

Contactors and Starters

Solid-state Contactors

Molded Case Circuit Breakers

Earth Leakage Circuit Breakers (IEC60947-2 conforming)

Pushbuttons, Selector Switches, Pilot Lights, Buzzers

Circuit Protectors

Super-rapid Fuses

Cam Switches

Rotary Switches

Control Relays

Timers

Limit Switches

Proximity Switches

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