Electrical Products Certification Procedure

Nº 298 Supreme decree of November 2005 that approves Regulation for electrical products and fuels it is applied to Certification Process. The dispositions of this regulation applied to all fuel products commercialized through the country and to those electrical products in accordance with current standard that must be certified before commercialization, for any use or application field, as well as, importers, manufactures and sellers
Product Certifications must be perform with any of Establish Systems provided on the following chart, based on ISO CASCO Guide, a Standarization National Institute Document INN- 100- 611

(Casco) “COMMITTEE ON CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT”
Certification System SEC
Certification General Procedure

As aforementioned, regardless its origin, products must be certificated by any of already mentioned Certification Systems, as Superintendence Test protocols establish.

These protocols generated for each product by resolutions based on national or international standards and technical specifications. For all products subject to obligatory Certification, an Authorized Organism of Certification recognized by Superintendence could only grant Approval Certify. CESMEC was the first SEC Authorized Organism of Certification Research Laboratory, to perform test and household-electric certification. (Record number being SEC 01)

Now days CESMEC is in conditions of perform all normal environment domestic devices test as electrical conductor, ballasts, plugs, simple, multiple and triple extension cord, conduit pipe, lamp switches, lamp holders, general illumination products and materials for low tension electrical systems, according to international standards (IEC) and Chilean standards (NCh).

Electrical Products determined for Obligatory Certification

Standardization National Institute Accreditation (INN)

On this field CESMEC count with the following accreditations granted by INN:

Products Certification Organism, according to NCh 2411 .Of 2003 standard.
Test Laboratory, according to NCh- ISO 17025 .Of 2001, ISO 17025 standard.

Contact

Laboratory Test:
Mr. Hector Bravo M. hbravo@cesmec.cl