UK
| Automotive EMC | The Automotive EMC network, run by Martin O'Hara of Telematica. Several papers and contacts, also an annual conference. |
| BBC Research & Development white papers | The BBC's R & D group has many papers, mostly about esoteric aspects of broadcasting, but several have to do with interference to broadcast reception. |
| EMC Journal | Free bi-monthly magazine, also has good contacts and articles. Supports the EMC Industry Association. |
| EMCTLA | The EMC Test Laboratories Association, includes several documents to do with application of the EMC Directive and associated test standards. |
| EMCIA | The EMC Industries Association, representing EMC product and equipment suppliers. |
| Radiocommunications Agency - Ofcom legacy site | The RA used to commission a good deal of EMC-related research and there are some interesting and important papers available for download from this page. |
| RA EMC Awareness - Ofcom legacy site | For neophytes, and other interested parties. |
| Radio Society of Great Britain EMC Committee | The RSGB is the UK's radio amateur society and they have a considerable interest in many EMC matters. |
| UKAS | The UK Accreditation Service, including scope of accreditation for EMC test labs. |
| IEC EMC Zone | The IEC's website is a prime source of information on existing and upcoming standards; this link goes to its EMC "zone". |
Others
| Compliance Engineering | Run by Compliance Engineering magazine and Conformity magazine; both these magazines are now defunct, but the websites are still active for archive material. |
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| Clemson University Vehicular Electronics Laboratory | Run by Professor Todd Hubing, formerly of UMR, includes plenty of tutorial information and calculation tools, as well as links to forthcoming events and other sources |
| CVEL inductance calc | The above site has a handy inductance calculator for various geometries, accessed by this link. |
| Interference Technology | Home of ITEM, still going, plenty of news and resources |
Other countries' market surveillance
Theoretically every EU country operates EMC market surveillance - the buzz-word for enforcement - equally. Practically, it's quite hard to find out who is responsible for this in every Member State; the Europa website has a page for this, but it's not entirely useful. Here are a few countries which advertise their activities.
| Germany | The Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) |
| Ireland | The Commission for Communications Regulation |
| Sweden | Elsäkerhetsverket (National Electrical Safety Board) |
New Directives for EMC
Both the EMC Directive and the Automotive EMC Directive have been re-published as second editions, 2004/108/EC and 2004/104/EC respectively. We have put together a short briefing page which gives you the salient changes in these new Directives so that you have a handle on what they mean to your compliance strategy.EC source page
Mindful of the difficulty many companies face in discovering what standards apply to them and what their timescales are, a joint CEN/CENELEC/ETSI initiative has produced a web site which allows a user to relate standards to products across multiple Directives, and track the development of these standards.
| EMC Directive second edition | The new EMC Directive's home page |
| New Approach | The pan-standards bodies web site - this link allows you to look up applicable standards for the EMCD by product family |
| Cenelec Guides | Guides 24 and 25, which tell you how you're supposed to use the standards in the OJ |
EC Guidelines
| New Directive Guidelines | The EC guidelines on the new EMC Directive are available here: currently the May 07 version, there may be changes in future |
| UK Radiocomms Agency - Ofcom legacy site | The EC guidelines on the old EMC Directive, still available from the Ofcom RA legacy site (for now) |
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