TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 4 covered the commercial standards, deriving from the IEC, that are relevant for the EMC and R&TTE Directives. Although comprehensive, these are by no means the only test standards or legislation that can be found for EMC. This chapter looks at a range of other sectors that have their own EMC framework: automotive, military, civil aerospace and rail.
The automotive sector has for a long time had its own EMC requirements.
In Europe, the EMC both of whole vehicles and their electronic sub-assemblies is covered by the Automotive EMC Directive. This is a type-approval Directive, not a New Approach one, and instead of the CE Mark requires that products which comply with its requirements are e marked.
The original Automotive EMC Directive 95/54/EC required type approval for EMC of all vehicles and electronic vehicle sub-assemblies. It was an amendment to the early Directive 72/245/EEC which controlled ignition interference emissions. Unlike the EMC Directive, it included within its annexes all the applicable technical requirements and test methods, many of which are quite different to the commercial standards discussed in Chapter 4 of this book. Automotive electronic products within its scope should be automatically excluded from the scope of the EMC Directive. This was clear enough for systems that are intended to be mounted in new vehicles which are themselves within the scope, but for aftermarket products (i.e. items which are sold for vehicular use but not supplied as original...
