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Electrical and Lighting South Africa issued a peremptory norm
Recently, South Africa's Trade and Industry issued notification: Electric Lighting peremptory norms.
Peremptory norms include electrical lighting voltage 1000V following general requirements for electric light. Such devices typically used by ordinary people through ordinary retail distribution channels. Related products include: lamps, including searchlights and spotlights and parts thereof, including lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or products; luminous signs, illuminated nameplates and similar products, with fixed light source, and parts, nes; lamp , bedside lamps, floor lamps, lamps and other lighting devices (ICS: 29.140.40 HS: 851310,9405,940520,940540).
According to the South African peremptory norms related to electrical and electronic equipment (No. 32443 Gazette Notice No. 788) requirements, the manufacturer or the import and export of electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers before the products are sold in South Africa, each product model should be given the Ministry of Trade and Industry specified license peremptory norms governing body (South Africa Bureau of Standards, SABS) in.
In this case, exit inspection and quarantine departments to remind the South African manufacturer of lighting and electrical products import and export business: First, timely access to relevant specifications, carefully, to avoid the product because they do not meet the regulatory requirements cause can not be successfully exported. The second is to promptly communicate with importers for the latest specifications. In addition, safety performance and environmental requirements of lighting energy consumption is increasingly being valued by various countries and regions in the world, companies need committed to product upgrades and design innovation, strengthening the competitiveness of products, so that it can have a place in the international market.