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Electric bike EN standard suspected to be announced in April
Written by Robert Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:23
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The EN 15194 standard for EPACs (Electronically Power Assisted Cycles) is expected to be implemented next April. With the new standard the European e-Bike market will change drastically as EN 15194 include complex Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) requirements. The implementation date of April 2009 is not officially announced by the CEN Technical Committee TC333 which is handling the EN 15194 standard. However, strong rumours among e-Bike manufacturers and suppliers indicate clearly that this will be the timing of the publication as EN standard.
As the final voting round has already taken place with all CEN members (30 countries) agreeing on this standard, the last step for the implementation of the standard is publication. All CEN-member countries will publish this standard as a national/EN standard like.
These publications will give the EPAC standard the ‘presumption of conformity’ with the EU Safety Directive 2001/95/EC that: “Lays down an obligation on producers to place only safe products on the market.” This Directive also states that: “A product shall be presumed safe as far as the risks and risk categories covered by national standards are concerned when it conforms to voluntary national standards transposing European standards, the references of which have been published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Union in accordance with Article 4 of that Directive.”
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