About Us
The Approved Cables Initiative was established in March 2010 to address the issue of unsafe, non-approved and counterfeit cable entering the UK marketplace. With industry and regulator support, the ACI is taking a proactive and hard hitting approach to educate the electrical supply chain – from manufacturers to end users through a comprehensive communication schedule of seminars, marketing material and articles to national trade media.
The ACI is the first initiative of its kind in the electrical industry and it works within a framework which aims to proactively communicate, educate, investigate, eradicate and legislate. The organization provides guidance where appropriate to installers and where it identifies suspect importers, manufacturers and distributors, the ACI will investigate and publicise its results.
The ACI is also implementing a lobbying campaign - to reinforce current legislation and the introduction of new legislation to outlaw the sale and purchase of non-approved cable.
In particular the ACI is calling for the Government to introduce legislation to ensure that only cables that fully comply with British, European or International standards and carry a third party certification can be manufactured for sale, offered for sale, distributed or installed in the UK. It is also calling for cable sampling at the port of entry and inspection of order documents at distributor premises to stop these killer cables entering the UK market.
An industry-wide working group , supply chain representative bodies including Electrical Distributors Association (EDA); Electrical Contractors Association (ECA); Electrical Safety Council; British Approvals Service for Cables (BASEC); British Cables Association (BCA); Energy Networks Association (ENA); Ascertiva (previously the NICEIC Group Limited) and SELECT.
The Approved Cable Initiative
The Approved Cables Initiative has been established to address the issue of unsafe, non-approved and counterfeit cable entering the UK marketplace. The first initiative of its kind in the electrical industry the ACI is direct in its approach to investigate and publicise the findings of cables found to be faulty, counterfeit or non-compliant with British, European or International Standards.
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