Often in a funny way we have heard people talking of EC as China export. Ignoring the legal aspects, have a look at the origins of this “joke”.
All the directives and the European regulations say clearly that only people who live within the EEC or has in this field a legal representative can affix the CE mark. It follows that who is outside of the EEC can not!
What did Chinese do, but in reality all those who are outside the EEC and even those that working within this want to eliminate their traceability?
They have affixed a CE mark, similar to that regular, but with minor changes; usually they have approached the C and the E in a way as to seem the trade mark applied by the European Community but in fact DIFFERING from it.
When in a possible and rare control some authorities said that that mark could not be affixed by the “Chinese” in turn they said it was not the EC mark, but the acronym of China export, sometimes succeeding in preventing proper sanctions.
The European Community has made clear in a clear way the shape and dimensions of the EC mark, and has warned anyone not to put brands that were similar to the correct one.
We remind you that the correct form of the EC mark is the one you can find in our pages, where the C and the E are derived from two circles one in the other and the minimum size in height must be 5 mm.
Moreover the general ignorance made that even products that certainly respect the standards and the directives are marked wrong!Attention: we are not talking about products of small companies, for example the USB Vodafone pins for surfing in the Internet have the wrong EC mark and we can assure that this is not an isolated case.
So between those who apply the counterfeit EC mark and those who apply the wrong EC mark on correct products, the confusion is total. Perhaps a solution would be the literal application of the law, that is a fine of 2,500 euro and the seizure of the products.
Certainly a drastic attitude for an error not too serious, but the question arises: is so difficult to carry out a correct logo? And it is possible to think that the multinationals are unable to control such a trivial thing?
The result of these process is to leave the consumer in doubt: is it printing error or China export?
