EMC compliance guides for electronics manufacturers
What Directive 2014/30/EU requires, which harmonised standards apply to your product, and why units fail emissions and immunity testing.
EMC at a glance
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is governed by Directive 2014/30/EU, which has applied since 20 April 2016. It asks two things of a product: that it does not emit electromagnetic disturbance above the level at which radio, telecoms or other equipment can no longer work as intended, and that it keeps working when disturbance reaches it from elsewhere. Those are emissions and immunity, and a product has to pass both. There is no certificate to buy. You apply the harmonised standards listed in the Official Journal, keep the test reports in your technical documentation, and cover EMC in your EU Declaration of Conformity. Radio equipment is the exception: its EMC requirements sit in the Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU instead.
Read the Commission's EMC Directive guidance
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Testing, harmonised standards, lab selection and the failures that come up most often. CE marking as a whole, and RoHS and REACH, have their own guides.
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