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PRODUCT SAFETY

Poland currently has a system involving mandatory approval. If you are a manufacturer of electrical and electronic products and want to export your products to Poland, you must possess a B-certificate. As far as electrical equipment is concerned, the mandatory B mark covers product safety, EMC and hygiene issues.

The main certification body in Poland is PCBC and responsible for the issue of Poland B mark. A B-mark issued for the first time is valid for three years. The certificate can then be prolonged for up to five years.

When you are ready to market your product in Poland, SIEMIC can help you to coordinate testing to all corresponding standards and submit all relevant documents to PCBC. After PCBC reviews the test report and issue the certificate, you will be authorized to affix the B Marking to your product.

The Polish B-Mark has to be shown on all products.

The following documents together with one test sample are required for B-Mark Certification.

1. CB Test Report with CB Certificate
2. EMC Test Report
3. Additional Documentation
• Factory Inspection report (MC 6/7 or CIG-023)

• Service manual (Design drawings, specifications, circuit diagrams, component list etc.)
• Product photographs
• User's manual in Polish
• Application letter
• 2 x Agreement in English
• 2 x Agreement in Polish
• Questionnaire
• Authorization letter
• Identity Declaration
• Declaration of Conformity
• Rating label

RADIO AND TELECOM APPROVALS

The rule for granting a type approval certificate for telecommunications equipment is regulated by the Telecommunications Law of November 23, 1990 (Dz. U. No. 117 of 1995, poz. 564). In this Act, the telecommunications equipment intended to be connected to a telecommunications network and all radio-communication transmitters and transceivers may be installed and used only after obtaining an official approval called the "Certificate of Type Approval" issued by the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications.

Application for granting a type approval certificate for equipment type submitted to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications shall be made in Polish and should contain:

1. name and address of the manufacturer;
2. notary authorization issued by the manufacturer (only in the case of placing the application by the institution authorized by the manufacturer);
3. name, type and, if necessary, commercial name of the equipment being subject of the type approval tests;
4. applicant's statement ensuring conformity of parameters of the equipment being subject of trade turnover with the parameters of the devices which have been subject of the type approval tests;
5. applicant's statement in which he obliges himself to ensure both warranty and post warranty service;
6. applicant's statement in which he obliges himself to make the approved equipment available (free of charge) for a body executing the inspection tests, for a period of such tests;
7. operator's manual in Polish;
8. evaluation of equipment issued by an authorized testing laboratory (i.e. opinion referred to Art. 7a of the Telecommunications Law) together with a technical report of type approval tests.

After examining the above documents the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications issues the decision in which a testing laboratory is specified. After performing the tests the laboratory issues a Technical Opinion and a Test Report. On the basis of positive results of the tests the Certificate of Type Approval is granted by the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications.

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications does not recognize foreign certificates of type approval.