RoHS, CE-mark and touring

[DonMoose]

Here's what sounds like a dumb question, but I was wondering ...

Does a touring US-based musician headed into EU-land have to bring only CE-compliant gear? I mean, if it's non-vintage stuff.

[Gaz]

Only taken older gear over there on tour, but probably not. I don't remember them checking anything. I think that only applies to importing goods to be sold, not just bringing stuff to use!

[Reeltarded]

Yeah it's about retail.

[Leo_Gnardo]

One of the touring acts I used to work for was advised to have all their gear trucked to the shipping agent (RockIt or Van de Grift, I forget which) for a pre shipping "inspection" prior to a European tour. A couple days and a couple thousand dollars later, all of it went onto the plane freshly approved and stickered. Including new, old, and in between gear containing lead solder and all sorts of other now-prohibited materials. I doubt anyone really looked at anything. As far as I'm concerned it's a lot of hokum skokum intended to relieve the client of even more money. A couple decades ago the "authorities" were more worried those road cases were packed with dope, not lead. Funny the way things change.

[overtone]

I think that is a UK thing, but as I see it, the regulations do not really pin it down. Things just have to be "safe".
Can you define safe?
They have PAT testing with some stickers to make folk feel safer:
http://www.lastminutemusicians.com/arti ... sting.html

[jaysg]

I have a warning which is about something that happened to a buddy of mine who wanted to motorcycle around the Isle Of Man. It was cheaper to ship his helmet and leathers to the hotel. The idiot at FedEx checked the boxes wrong and he ended up having to buy his gear back because they said he owed import duties and were levying them on the hotel, iirc. It ran him about $700, which seems obscene.

You, the owner of stuff, need to make sure that the $10/hour schlubs don't screw up the forms.

[Reeltarded]

If you are making copies of amps with someone else's seals you have liabilities that an expensive lawyer is going to have problems figuring out.

First rule about fight club is..

[Gaz]

You, the owner of stuff, need to make sure that the $10/hour schlubs don't screw up the forms.

No need for classism.

schlub
SHləb/
nounNORTH AMERICANinformal
a talentless, unattractive, or boorish person.