Chile SEC Certification Mandatory for Electrical and Fuel Products

Chile SEC Certification
Certification Introduction
Chile's Electrical and Combustibles Supervisory Commission (Superintendencia de Electricidady Combustibles, SEC) is the national agency in Chile that formulates electrical product regulations. The Chilean national agency SEC (Superintendence of Electricity and Combustible Fuels) controls electrical, gasoline, and fuel products entering the Chilean market through safety and energy efficiency regulations, and uses accredited laboratories and certification agencies. Before the product is sold to the Chilean market, it must pass one of the certification modes (there are many certification modes, and the 1st, 2nd, and 6th certification modes will be introduced below) to obtain an accreditation certificate, SEC QR code (as follows) and energy efficiency certificate.

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SEC Certification Basic Information
Certification Nature: Mandatory
Local Testing: Not Required
Local Representative: Required
Certificate Validity: Long-term
Certification Mark: Yes

Applicable Product Scope
Chile implements mandatory certification for some home appliances. The product scope covered by Order No. 399 is detailed in the "List of Compulsory Certification Electrical Products" published on the website of the Electrical and Combustibles Supervisory Commission. The "List of Compulsory Certification Electrical Products" currently includes about 100 products. About 30 of them should be tested using Chilean standards. The rest of the products are tested and certified according to IEC standards. In principle, the SEC directly adopts IEC standards or Chilean standards equivalent to IEC. Chilean safety standards for electrical products (Chilean NCh standards) are based on IEC standards; the certification system for electronic products, such as consumer electronics, telecommunications equipment and information technology equipment, is still under development.

Household and similar electrical appliances
Electric Cables
Portable heating tools and similar appliances
Audio, video and similar electronic apparatus
Hand-held motor-operated electric tools
Lighting
Measuring instruments
Low tension materials
Rotating machines
Certification types
Chile SEC has 6 schemes, and the following 3 are suitable for domestic use:
Certification mode 1: including formal testing + subsequent evaluation of each batch of goods
Mode 1 process: 1 Provide at least 3 samples for testing and obtain the approval certificate and SEC QR code. After obtaining the approval certificate, the SEC QR code must be affixed to the product.
2 After the approval certificate is issued, the customer/applicant must inform us of each batch of goods exported to Chile
3 We will take a certain number of samples according to the quantity of goods after each batch arrives at the port and do the necessary testing. Only products that pass the test can be put on the market for sale

Certification Mode 2: Including formal test + factory inspection + semi-annual product evaluation test + semi-annual market spot check
Mode 2 process:
1 Provide at least 3 samples for testing and obtain the approval certificate and SEC QR code. After obtaining the approval certificate, the SEC QR code must be affixed to the product.
2 After the approval certificate is issued, sampling tests will be conducted from the market once every six months (the Chilean laboratory agency will conduct sampling tests in Chile), and sampling tests will be conducted from the factory once every six months.
3 Conduct annual factory inspections once a year (the certificate is valid for a long time as long as the factory inspection and sampling are accepted)

Certification Mode 6: Recognition of foreign certification + supervision testing of each batch of goods
Mode 6 process:
1 Importers must first submit the certification certificates that the product has obtained (such as GS VDE TUV mark UL, etc.) to the Chilean SEC!
Please note that the recognized foreign certification must be issued by a foreign certification agency recognized by IAF members or signatory countries, and the certificate can be found on the website of the issuing agency.
2 The importer will notify us of the arrival of the imported goods, and we will arrange sampling and simplified testing and obtain the approval certificate.

Application materials
1. Application form
2. General contract
3. Trademark, model and origin information
4. User manual, circuit diagram, structure diagram, key parts list, nameplate
5. Define whether the product is a disposable product. If after-sales service is required, the following information must be provided: contact information and VAT information of the Chilean legal representative and the manufacturer's authorization letter as a technical service provider
6. Instructions, installation, operation and maintenance manual (Spanish)
7. Quantity of each shipment
8. Customs declaration (after the goods arrive at the port)
9. Local sales point in Chile (for market supervision)
Others
1. All tests must be carried out at 220V, 50Hz
2. The test unit is determined by the model involved in the test. Please confirm the test unit with us before testing.
3. For products that require evaluation of clauses 19,11,4,1 to 19,11,4,7 (EMP), the test report must be provided by the ILAC laboratory and submitted to us for evaluation.
4. The Chilean SEC protocol requires verification that the plug dimensions meet Chilean requirements. Only data from laboratories authorized by the SEC will be accepted.

About Us

Shenzhen LCS Compliance Testing Laboratory Ltd., abbr. for LCS, was founded in 2004 in Shenzhen, LCS is now growing into an independent comprehensive third-party institution which focuses on test & certification. Profound technical background and diligent working attitude decided LCS with an outstanding high starting point from the outset，pioneering spirit and consciousness of keeping pace with the times which predestined the thoroughly tempered course of LCS.

Our Labs

LCS Founding Members have engineering background and had gradually built up Safety Lab, EMC Lab, RF Lab, SAR & HAC Lab, Reliability Lab, Lighting Electrical Lab, LED Lighting Performance Lab, Energy Efficiency Lab, Electronic Cigarette Testing Lab, Chemistry Lab, BQTF, Environmental and Occupational Evaluation Lab, Battery Lab, Toy Lab, Textile Lab, Food and Food Grade Material Lab. The establishment of our comprehensive labs ensure our test and certification scope covers almost all fields, such as Reliability and Safety test, EMC test, Chemical Hazardous Substances test, Material Analysis, Food Contact Material test, Bluetooth Test & Certification, Environment and Occupational Health, Performance test of spare parts of Automobile and so on.

Authorization

Moreover, LCS won many authorized qualifications both domestic and overseas. LCS is recognized as IEC/ISO17025 laboratories accepted by CNAS and NVLAP, accredited by CPSC, CMA, accredited for CQC, ISTA, CBTL, SASO, SABS. Meanwhile LCS become laboratory authorized by TUV, BQTF issued by the SIG. LCS had also signed cooperation agreements with FCC, ISED, ETL, CEC, UL, E-Mark, CETECOM, KTC, SAA Approval and many other authoritative institutions, hence we can provide our clients with efficient and professional service for product test and certification.

Experience

Our RF experience ranges from WLAN (802.11b/g/n/a/ac), Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth (802.15.1), ZigBee (802.15.4), Z-Wave, UWB (802.15.3), WiMAX (802.16), SRD, DECT, RFID, NFC, GSM, WCDMA (+HSDPA/HSUPA), LTE, 5G (NR/VoNR/eMTC/eMBB/URLLC),UHF/VHF, WHDI, AM, FM, DAB, DVB, GPS, GNSS, COMPASS, GLONASS and more. The products we are mostly working with are basestations, client adapters, laptops, cordless phones, baby monitors, cellulars, radars, sensors, scanners, receivers, immobilizers, remote controls, etc. Modern products incorporate not often one, but a variety of co-existing technologies.

Welcome

LCS is a reliable party. With more than 20 years hands-on experience in the field of Radio, Telecom, EMC and Safety certification, including country approvals worldwide, we will guide you with our knowledge. You are very welcome!

We will be pleased to assist you with your questions or inquiries, please contact us.