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ATEX Directive
for QMS for Ex-d product manufacture
go tohttp://www.iecex.com/operational_manuals.htm
EN 13980 : 2002
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapproach/standardization/harmstds/reflist/atex.html
POSTED BY TQMC AT 2:11 AM 3 COMMENTS 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 02, 2005
data retention time ...
EU data-retention directive leaked
Jo Bestsilicon.comAugust 02, 2005, 09:45 BST
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Details of all Internet communications will need to held for six months and phone communications for a year, under plans being mooted in Brussels
A draft of the European Directive on data retention has been leaked, revealing that Brussels will be asking for all communications records to be held for a minimum of six months.
The latest version of the Directive, made public by the European Digital Rights organisation, aims to standardise the amount, type and length of time communications services providers will have to store details about their customers' phone calls, emails, faxes, text messages, IMs and other electronic communications, including location details of mobile phone calls.
The Directive, if passed, will force telecoms companies to store information on "traditional fixed and mobile electronic communication services" for one year and IP-based communications for six months.
For calls made between two VoIP users, information will be retained for six months. However, for calls that originate over IP but connect to a normal landline or mobile, data will be held for a year.
While the data held by communications companies won't include the content of the calls or emails themselves, it will ensure that law enforcement agencies can identify the sender and recipient and, for mobile calls, the location of the caller.
According to the EU, there will be a "limited invasion of privacy" and "a limited impact on the competitiveness of the electronic communications industry", as telecoms companies across Europe will have to capture and retain large amounts of data on their customers. The EU, however, has said ISPs and the like should be compensated for any additional expense they incur as a result of the directive.
The European Commission said the measures are now "urgent" and necessary for the "prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution" of criminals and terrorists.
A number of human rights and civil liberties organisations have banded together to oppose the mandatory retention of data and are petitioning the EC to drop the plans, in a petition which reads: "No research has been conducted anywhere in Europe that supports the need and necessity of creating such a large-scale database containing such sensitive data for the purpose of fighting crime and terrorism."
A similar conclusion was reached last month by the European parliament, which adopted a report questioning the necessity of a separate but similar data retention proposal, put forward by four EU member states.
The European parliament's report confirmed it had "sizeable doubts concerning the choice of legal basis and proportionality of the measures" and was concerned it place "enormous burdens" on the telecommunications industry, which it put at around €180m (£124m) initial expense and €50m per year running costs per firm.
The EU's plan for data retention will also necessitate the creation of a new body of law enforcement agents, the tech world and data protection authorities, which will be charged with translating the directive for emerging technologies.
The EC is expected to formally propose the directive this month and, if it becomes law, will review the directive's performance after three years and analyse how useful the retained information has been to police and intelligence services.
Clarke gets EC backing over data retention
Europe debates data sharing
EU discord over data retention
UK lobbies for data retention
EU lawmakers threaten open source
Ingrid MarsonZDNet UKAugust 01, 2005, 17:45 BST
Tell us your opinion
A proposed European law on intellectual-property infringement could allow SCO to sue Linux users in a criminal court, experts warn
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The European Commission has proposed a law that could allow criminal charges to be pressed against businesses using software that is believed to infringe upon another company's intellectual property (IP).
The proposed directive, which was adopted by the European Commission last month, would allow criminal sanctions against "all intentional infringements of an IP right on a commercial scale".
Richard Penfold, a partner at law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, said last week that the proposed directive could "quite possibly" allow the imprisonment of the boss of a company that is using infringing software, although it would depend on whether the defendant can argue that the infringement was unintentional.
Although it is unusual for companies to target the users of software, rather than its manufacturers, there is one well-known example — the cases brought by the SCO Group against car maker DaimlerChrysler and auto-parts retailer AutoZone over their use of Linux.
SCO claimed that AutoZone infringed on SCO Unix copyrights through its use of Linux and that DaimlerChrysler had breached its contract with SCO.
Ross Anderson, the chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said the proposed directive could help SCO or other companies in future IP infringement cases against open source software.
"In future somebody like SCO will have another course of action open to them — the threat of criminal charges. This threat would enable SCO to cast a larger legal cloud," said Anderson.
The European branch of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was also worried that SCO could use the directive to its advantage. Joachim Jakobs from FSF Europe said that not only could company managers face being tried in a criminal court, but SCO could also be allowed to join the criminal investigation — as the directive calls for "Joint Investigation Teams", where the holder of the IP rights in question can assist the criminal investigation.
But Paul Stevens, a partner at Olswang, said it was unlikely that software users would be affected by the directive, as any company that pursues criminal cases against users is likely to suffer from the bad publicity.
"It's not that often that companies who have IP rights pursue cases against users," he said. "Most IP owners want you to continue buying their product and to continue dealing with them. If they started threatening someone with prison or a criminal record, how do you think their customers will feel?"
The proposed directive, which has not yet been approved by the European Parliament, includes various penalties to those caught infringing IP rights four years' imprisonment; fines; seizure and destruction of the offending goods; closure of the establishment used to commit the offence; a ban on engaging in commercial activities; and denial of access to legal aid.
The proposal is described as a "European Parliament and Council directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of IP rights". For more information on this law and how it may impact free software, file sharers and patent infringement lawsuits,
please click here.
Microsoft 'most counterfeited tech brand'
Government intellectual property under scrutiny
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39211543,00.htm
Jo Bestsilicon.comAugust 02, 2005, 09:45 BST
Tell us your opinion
Details of all Internet communications will need to held for six months and phone communications for a year, under plans being mooted in Brussels
A draft of the European Directive on data retention has been leaked, revealing that Brussels will be asking for all communications records to be held for a minimum of six months.
The latest version of the Directive, made public by the European Digital Rights organisation, aims to standardise the amount, type and length of time communications services providers will have to store details about their customers' phone calls, emails, faxes, text messages, IMs and other electronic communications, including location details of mobile phone calls.
The Directive, if passed, will force telecoms companies to store information on "traditional fixed and mobile electronic communication services" for one year and IP-based communications for six months.
For calls made between two VoIP users, information will be retained for six months. However, for calls that originate over IP but connect to a normal landline or mobile, data will be held for a year.
While the data held by communications companies won't include the content of the calls or emails themselves, it will ensure that law enforcement agencies can identify the sender and recipient and, for mobile calls, the location of the caller.
According to the EU, there will be a "limited invasion of privacy" and "a limited impact on the competitiveness of the electronic communications industry", as telecoms companies across Europe will have to capture and retain large amounts of data on their customers. The EU, however, has said ISPs and the like should be compensated for any additional expense they incur as a result of the directive.
The European Commission said the measures are now "urgent" and necessary for the "prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution" of criminals and terrorists.
A number of human rights and civil liberties organisations have banded together to oppose the mandatory retention of data and are petitioning the EC to drop the plans, in a petition which reads: "No research has been conducted anywhere in Europe that supports the need and necessity of creating such a large-scale database containing such sensitive data for the purpose of fighting crime and terrorism."
A similar conclusion was reached last month by the European parliament, which adopted a report questioning the necessity of a separate but similar data retention proposal, put forward by four EU member states.
The European parliament's report confirmed it had "sizeable doubts concerning the choice of legal basis and proportionality of the measures" and was concerned it place "enormous burdens" on the telecommunications industry, which it put at around €180m (£124m) initial expense and €50m per year running costs per firm.
The EU's plan for data retention will also necessitate the creation of a new body of law enforcement agents, the tech world and data protection authorities, which will be charged with translating the directive for emerging technologies.
The EC is expected to formally propose the directive this month and, if it becomes law, will review the directive's performance after three years and analyse how useful the retained information has been to police and intelligence services.
Clarke gets EC backing over data retention
Europe debates data sharing
EU discord over data retention
UK lobbies for data retention
EU lawmakers threaten open source
Ingrid MarsonZDNet UKAugust 01, 2005, 17:45 BST
Tell us your opinion
A proposed European law on intellectual-property infringement could allow SCO to sue Linux users in a criminal court, experts warn
on error resume next
ShockMode = (IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash")))
The European Commission has proposed a law that could allow criminal charges to be pressed against businesses using software that is believed to infringe upon another company's intellectual property (IP).
The proposed directive, which was adopted by the European Commission last month, would allow criminal sanctions against "all intentional infringements of an IP right on a commercial scale".
Richard Penfold, a partner at law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, said last week that the proposed directive could "quite possibly" allow the imprisonment of the boss of a company that is using infringing software, although it would depend on whether the defendant can argue that the infringement was unintentional.
Although it is unusual for companies to target the users of software, rather than its manufacturers, there is one well-known example — the cases brought by the SCO Group against car maker DaimlerChrysler and auto-parts retailer AutoZone over their use of Linux.
SCO claimed that AutoZone infringed on SCO Unix copyrights through its use of Linux and that DaimlerChrysler had breached its contract with SCO.
Ross Anderson, the chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said the proposed directive could help SCO or other companies in future IP infringement cases against open source software.
"In future somebody like SCO will have another course of action open to them — the threat of criminal charges. This threat would enable SCO to cast a larger legal cloud," said Anderson.
The European branch of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was also worried that SCO could use the directive to its advantage. Joachim Jakobs from FSF Europe said that not only could company managers face being tried in a criminal court, but SCO could also be allowed to join the criminal investigation — as the directive calls for "Joint Investigation Teams", where the holder of the IP rights in question can assist the criminal investigation.
But Paul Stevens, a partner at Olswang, said it was unlikely that software users would be affected by the directive, as any company that pursues criminal cases against users is likely to suffer from the bad publicity.
"It's not that often that companies who have IP rights pursue cases against users," he said. "Most IP owners want you to continue buying their product and to continue dealing with them. If they started threatening someone with prison or a criminal record, how do you think their customers will feel?"
The proposed directive, which has not yet been approved by the European Parliament, includes various penalties to those caught infringing IP rights four years' imprisonment; fines; seizure and destruction of the offending goods; closure of the establishment used to commit the offence; a ban on engaging in commercial activities; and denial of access to legal aid.
The proposal is described as a "European Parliament and Council directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of IP rights". For more information on this law and how it may impact free software, file sharers and patent infringement lawsuits,
please click here.
Microsoft 'most counterfeited tech brand'
Government intellectual property under scrutiny
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39211543,00.htm
POSTED BY TQMC AT 6:41 PM 1 COMMENTS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2005
UL Assistance for CE Marking ...
website;http://www.ul-asia.com/
We recommend you to purchase the standard(s) from the websitehttp://www.iec.ch/searchpub.
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POSTED BY TQMC AT 8:47 PM 0 COMMENTS
SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2005
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useful links....
technical file writing assistance
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new Directive, the RoHS Directive
http://www.ind.tuv.com/en/services/product_testing/weee_rohs_services.php
technical file writing assistance
http://www.ul.com/international/technical.html
new Directive, the RoHS Directive
http://www.ind.tuv.com/en/services/product_testing/weee_rohs_services.php
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