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In mature markets, such as the EU and US, there are extensive requirements behind the FCC and CE marks. While no third party approvals are necessary, the requirements are still there. Especially the radio noise requirements can be difficult. How do you go about solving and documenting these?

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The three viable solutions are:

- sell it as a "kit" or "component", something that doesn't stand on its own; these don't need approval

- stick the CE mark on there and rely on nobody checking it. This does leave you open to future legal action, but it's quite rare.

- stay out of the market entirely and abandon the field to Chinese postal vendors who will never be held accountable

(same goes for WEEE registration in the EU)

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