The EMC Directive does not apply to repaired apparatus

The spare parts for which the EMC Directive applies are those intended to be placed on the EEA market as single commercial units with a view to their being distributed and/or used.

Modification carried out by the end-user should be considered excluded from the application of the EMC Directive.

Carrying out repairs does not normally affect the EMC characteristics of the original apparatus. From the EMC point of view, the repaired apparatus is not different from the original product. For this reason, the EMC Directive does not apply. A typical repair operation would be replacement of a faulty part with an identical spare.

If the manufacturer of the original spare part offers a new, different one in its place and it is used for the repair, the repaired apparatus does not need to be brought in conformity again with the EMC Directive so long as the new part does not produce an apparatus with worse EMC performance than the original.

Modification carried out by the end-user should be considered excluded from the application of the EMC Directive. In fact they are made under the sole responsibility of the end-user, subject to product liability and other pertinent legislation, but not under EMC Directive. This apparatus is not being traded.

The client receiving the modified apparatus is here the end user and modifier. In any case h/she should not trade such modified apparatus unless it is brought in conformity with the applicable provisions of the EMC Directive.