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ANCOM Recommends Caution When Buying Electric and Electronic Domestic Appliances

18.11.2014

ANCOM warns the consumers to carefully check the technical specifications, as well as the CE marking, when they wish to buy electric and electronic domestic appliances. This warning comes as a result of control actions conducted by the ANCOM inspectors, who found that there is electric equipment in use that breaches the European electromagnetic compatibility requirements and causes interferences with electronic communications (telephony, internet or television services).

ANCOM’s control action was initiated following the complaint received from a provider of audio-visual programme retransmission services from Timișești, county of Neamț, who reported harmful interference with the communications network it operates. Following multiple measurements performed by the ANCOM inspectors and on the technical assessments conducted by the National Institute of Research-Development and Tests for Electrotehnics (ICMET) of Craiova, the harmful interference was found to come from the LED lamps on the public lightning poles. These lamps were not in compliance with the European electromagnetic compatibility requirements, while the harmful interference generated by the public lightning network exceeded the maximum ceilings in force, thus affecting the proper functioning of the audiovisual programme retransmission cable network.

The Authority requested the Timișești mayoralty to remove the lamps in breach of the European regulations. Moreover, ANCOM fined the equipment importer RON 10,000 and asked the customer list in order to notify them on the electromagnetic interference generated by this equipment with a view to its soonest possible switchoff.

ANCOM recommends the buyers of electric and electronic equipment to look for the CE marking on it, in order to prevent such non-conforming equipment to create harmful interference with electronic communications networks and services.

The CE marking on equipment is an indication that it fulfils the technical requirements provided for trade in the European Economic Area - EEA (EU countries, plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), as well as in Turkey. The CE marking is also applied on products manufactured in third countries and sold in the European Economic Area. In the EU, selling equipment that can generate harmful interference or that can be affected by such interference is regulated by Directive 2004/108/CE, transposed into the Romanian legislation by Government Decision no. 982/2007 on electromagnetic compatibility.

Find more about the CE marking and electromagnetic compatibility on the ANCOM website, here.