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United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates (ESMA) – Guidelines V1 for Audio/Video and IT/Office Equipment
Effective October 17, 2019
The Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology (ESMA) implemented the guidelines for Audio/Video and IT/Office Equipment categorized under the Low Voltage Equipment regulation.
Important Dates:
November 1, 2019
- All products defined in the regulation shall complied with applicable standards and have a valid Certificated of Conformity (CoC) issued under ECAS/EQM.
December 20, 2020
- All products defined in the regulation shall comply with the IEC 62368-1 standard and have a valid CoC issued under ECAS/EQM.
- All ECAS/EQM Certificates of Conformity issued under the IEC 60065 and/or IEC 60950-1 will be considered invalid/void.
All audio/video and IT/office equipment categorized as Low Voltage Equipment (LVE) designed to be purchased and used by end-users or consumers for daily and non-commercial/non-professional purposes. It includes all products through both B2B and B2C commercial transactions.
| IEC 60065, IEC 60950-1, IEC 62368-1 |
| The following covers B2B and B2C consumer products of audio/video and office/IT equipment: |
| · Non-professional stand-alone audio products |
| Radio |
| Record players |
| Disc players |
| Mp3 players |
| Speaker systems |
| Amplifiers |
| Sound bars (Bluetooth or otherwise) |
| Other audio products |
| · Non-professional stand-alone video playing and recording systems: |
| VCD, DVD, Blu-ray players |
| Digital still and video cameras |
| Game consoles |
| Projectors |
| · Videoke/Karaoke Mutimedia systems |
| · TV Decoders and Set-top boxes |
| · Consumer series Desktops and Laptops Computers, All-in-one PCs |
| · Tablets and palm pilots |
| · Desktop/computer monitors |
| · Printers/scanners (i.e. inkjet, laser, etc.) includes office printers, multi-function printers (MFP), label printers portable or stand-alone |
| · Non-professional routers, repeaters |
| · Microphones |
| · Touch drawing pads |
| · Landline phones (corded/cordless) |
| · External hard drives supplied with an external power supply (i.e. NAS-Network attached storage etc. |
| Exemptions |
| · Industrial/Commercial/Professional Audio/Video Systems |
| · Industrial/Commercial/Professional IT equipment |
| · Large format printers |
| · Interactive displays or smart boards |
| · Mobile phones, network and/or IP phones |
| · Two-way radios |
| · Keyboards, mouse, trackball/track pad (wired / cordless) |
| · Stand-alone (plug-in) external hard drives, USB thumb drive, SD cards, etc. |
| · Spare parts and/or accessories (i.e. lenses & flashes for cameras, ink/ink cartridges for printers, etc.) |
