BRAZIL: Technical Requirements for Conformity Assessment of Restricted Radiation Radiocommunication Equipment
On February 26th, 2021 ANATEL published the Ato no. 1306 regarding the technical requirements for the conformity assessment. This publication affects Annex I of the Ato no. 14.448 from December 4th, 2017. The main changes are aimed at the frequency ranges in the band of 5.150- 5.350 MHz, 5.470-5.725 MHz, and 5.925-7.125 MHz meeting conditions, […]
BRAZIL: Top Published ANATEL Regulations to Monitor Today
It’s been almost a year since ANATEL Resolution 715 entered into force, switching from an all-in-one regulatory framework to a series of publications that define the specifications, guidelines, detailed procedures, and concepts for everything related to the radio and telecom product certifications in Brazil. ANATEL is surely achieving its goal with this new structure: a […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Act 077 of 2021 – Cybersecurity
On January 05th of 2021, ANATEL has issued Act 077 which is now relating some concerns of Cybersecurity that will require conformity also throughout the ANATEL Certification process in Brazil. This will be applicable for all the products listed in the Telecommunications Products Reference List published by the Agency (Act 7280 from November 2020) and […]
BRAZIL: Operational Procedure Comes Into Force January 31st for Conformity Assessment of Telecom Products
Starting on January 31 st, 2021, will be the entry in force of the following Operational Procedure for Conformity Assessment of Telecommunications Products by Certification: Ato 4083/2020 – Evaluation of the factory management system for all products: the ISO certificate will be required for all products and all factories, regardless of the product classification and […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Publish Public Consultation No. 81 Regarding Operational Procedure for the Import of Telecom Products
ANATEL published Public Consultation no. 81 for approval of the Operational Procedure for the Import of Telecom Products. The remarks of the document are the following: Commercialization purposes – The import of approved products for commercialization products can be only performed by the Applicant of the Approval or its legal representative – The ANATEL identification […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Publish Public Consultation Nº 82/2020 for WIFI 6E
On December 10th, The Telecom Regulator ANATEL released a Public consultation impacting Act 14448 (Technical Requirements For Assessing Conformity Assessment of Restricted Radiation Equipment). It’s pretended to include the test requirements and limits for the range 5925-7125 MHz. This is important for the manufacturers since they would be allowed to have approved devices with the […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Issues Ato No. 7280 Updating List of Reference for Telecom Products
On Dec 3rd 2020, ANATEL updated the list of products for telecommunications. One of the major updates is that products certified with Type Test with periodic evaluation now will have a period of validity of 2 or 3 years (please see the attached document in the Annex for more details). If the product was certified […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Publishes Public Consultation No. 69 to Update SAR Technical Standard Act No. 955
On October 06th, 2020, ANATEL opened a public consultation for the update of Annex I to Act No. 955, of February 8, 2018, which provides for the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Testing Procedures for Telecommunications Products. The review is important due to the development of new transmission technologies for portable products and their impacts on […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Extends Once Again The Temporary Exception for All Renewals Expiring in 2020
On September 25th, 2020, ANATEL has issued an official document announcing another extension to the exception for renewals due to COVID-19. This regulation was last published on June 22nd and can be found here. The following was said: For all renewals (with no changes in the equipment) in which the technical certificate will expire from March 06, 2020, […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Issues Guidelines to Certification Bodies for the Technical Assessment on 5G
On September 21st, 2020, ANATEL issues additional notations to the Ato no. 3151 (Technical Requirements for the Technical Assessment of conformity for Terminal Access Stations) and Ato no. 3152 (Technical Requirements for Conformity Assessment of Celular Mobile Devices). The technical requirements were published based in the standard 3GPP TS 38.521-3 which does not include the […]