This BZT sign with the eagle can be understood as a stage before the CE-conformity.
Thus it was not limited to telephone devices, faxes and so on, but to ALL electrical and electronic equipment.
There are certain regulations regarding EMC (ElectroMagnetic Comatibility) which are covered from the CE sign now and which have been also covered (partly) from the BZT sign before.
Johannes.
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Von: Michael J. Hußmann [SMTP:michael_at_michael-hussmann.de]
Gesendet am: 22 September 2001 14:59
An: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Betreff: Re: [NTLK] Another MP120 Question
Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net) wrote:
> As someone else
> opined, I think it's a certification for some country. I also noticed the CE
> cert, to I would guess that that is what it is, although, what country??
Jon,
as others have guessed correctly, it's Germany. Anyone who has ever seen
pictures from the "Bundestag", the German parlament, will recognize the
eagle, affectionately known as "Fette Henne" (fat hen). Next to the eagle
you will find the letters "BZT" -- this is the "Bundesamt fuer
Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation". At that time, any device capable
of being connected to the German telephone net needed the BZT's approval.
The BZT became part of the "Bundesamt fuer Post und Telekommunikation "
(BAPT) in 1996, which in turn was assimilated into the
"Regulierungsbehoerde fuer Telekommunikation und Post" (Reg TP, <http://
www.regtp.de/>) in 1997/1998. Despite the name of the latter, much
_de_regulation has been going on in recent years in the area of
telecommunications here.
Now one thing strikes me as odd: the MP120 as such was never capable of
being connected to a telephone line directly. The type of devices needing
a BZT Zulassung were telephones, answering machines, fax machines, and
modems, but not PDAs. The German MP2100 had no "BZT Zulassung", nor did
it need one. But then, neither did the MP120.
- Michael
Michael J. Hussmann
E-mail: michael_at_michael-hussmann.de
WWW: http://michael-hussmann.de
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