European Union: The EU Open to Feedback to Evaluate Rules Related to the EMC Directive
Type approval impacted? Yes Is Spectrum allocation impacted? No Are imports impacted? No Are relevant Standards impacted? EMC Directive 2014/30/EU Description of the regulatory update: Starting from January 23rd to February 20th, 2020, the European Commission is receiving feedback about the Evaluation of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive, this was made to consider whether the EMC Directive is […]
EUROPEAN UNION: Updates to Blue Guide
The initial “Blue Guide” was published in 2000 and since then, it has become one of the main reference documents explaining how to implement the EU product rules and it also helps businesses and national inspectors apply these rules. Now the EU has started the preparation for a new update of the Blue Guide to […]
EUROPEAN UNION: December 20th Marks 1 Year Since Standard IEC 62368-1 Came Into Force
We want to inform our readers that December 20th, 2019, marks one year from the date of entry into force of the Standard IEC 62368-1, as it was informed in the EU’s Official Journal C209 of June 15 th, 2018. Standard IEC 62368-1 is a safety/HBSE (Hazard Based Safety Engineering). This standard is hazard based-performance oriented, not a risk-based standard. […]
EU: Harmonised technical conditions in the area of radio spectrum use for short-range devices update
The European Commission has recently modified the IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2019/1345 of 2 August 2019 amending Decision 2006/771/EC updating harmonised technical conditions in the area of radio spectrum use for short-range devices. Some of the changes are on the exact definition of “short-range device” and “non-interference and non-protected basis” and that the Member States shall […]
EUROPEAN UNION: Decision 2017/1483/EU to Impact SRDs Starting July 2019
Short Range Devices Decision 2006/771/EC as amended by Decision 2017/1483/EU, this update presents an increment in the number of harmonized frequency bands that can actually be used for short-range devices. In the most recent release (Decision 2017/1483/EU) the technical annex was replaced with a new version in order to respond to the fast changes in […]
EUROPEAN UNION: Defined Requirements for Radio Equipment and Repealed Directive 1999/5/EC
The European Union in their latest Notification, EU/589, published the supplementing Directive 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council in order to properly define essential requirements for radio equipment construction (Article 3). From now onwards, “access to emergency services” is one of the features that should be present in these type of equipment. […]
EUROPEAN UNION: EN 62368-1:2014 Enforcement Postponed for December 2020
On June 15, 2018, the European Union published a notice in its latest Official Journal, 2018/C 209 37, in order to announce the postponement for EN 62368-1:2014, which was originally set to come into effect on June 20, 2019, and now scheduled for December 20, 2020. It is an important highlight that the new standard […]
EU: Harmonized Standards Update
The Council on radio equipments and telecommunications terminal equipment of the European Union, in the implementation of Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament has published the list of titles and references that will now need to meet the standards under the Union harmonization legislation. Please refer to PDF attached for reference. For questions or comments […]
EUROPEAN UNION: Standard List for Electrical Safety Directive Updated
The Commission of the European Union (EU) updated the standards list for Electrical Safety Directive. The updated standard list can be used to demonstrate compliance with Low Voltage Directive (LVD). This impacts electrical equipment designed for use within a certain voltage limit (devices for use within 50 – 1000V alternating current; 75 – 1500V direct […]
European Union: RED 2014/53/EU Guide
Since June 13, 2016 the Radio Equipment Directive (2014/53/EU) established a regulatory framework for placing radio equipment on the market but, as of June 13 2017, only the new RED is applicable. During this transitional phase, manufacturers were allowed to place on the market radio equipment compliant with either the new RED rules or the […]