. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/IT/22
22 March 2002
(02-1491)
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in
Information Technology Products
SURVEY ON EMC/EMI
At its meetings of 15 February 2002, the Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade
in Information Technology Products agreed to conduct a survey as part of the on-going work in the
NTM Work Programme.  This survey emanates from the proposal made by Canada1 to initiate a pilot
project with respect to the issues of EMC and EMI.   The survey inquires about participants' technical
regulations and conformity assessment procedures fo r information technology products.  It is noted that
a similar survey on certain standards-related matters was conducted by the Committee in February 1998,
and those participants who responded to that survey may wish to draw upon their responses2 to those
questions in order to respond to this survey, assuming the situation has not changed.  The responses to
this earlier survey can be found in the document series G/IT/SPEC/Q1/.
Therefore participants are requested to re spond to the following four questions before
30 May 2002, by sending their replies to the WTO Secretariat:
1. a) Does your government have mandatory technical requirements for electromagnetic
interference of Information Technology equipment?  If so, please identify.
b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR 22?  If not, please explain the current
requirements.
2. a) Does your government have mandatory technical requirements for electromagnetic
immunity of Information Technology equipment?  If so, please identify.
b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR 24?  If not, please explain the current
requirements.
3. a) What conformity assessment procedure for electromagnetic compatibility
(EMC/EMI), which includes both interference and immunity, does your government
require for approval of information technology products?
b) May suppliers perform these procedures (e.g. testing, declaration of conformity), or
must third parties perform these procedures?
                                                     
1    G/IT/SPEC/Q3/2.
2 The following participants responded in the following documentation:  Australia
(G/IT/SPEC/Q1/6+Corr.1); Canada (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/11); Chinese Taipei (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/18); Costa Rica
(G/IT/SPEC/Q1/24); Czech Republic (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/ 1); Estonia (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/3); European Commission
(G/IT/SPEC/Q1/9); Hong Kong, China (G/IT/SP EC/Q1/4); Iceland (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/17; Israel
(G/IT/SPEC/Q1/15); Japan (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/2); Korea (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/16); Macao, China (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/5);
Malaysia (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/22); New Zealand (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/7); Norway (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/20); Poland(G/IT/SPEC/Q1/13); Philippines (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/21); Romania (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/26); Singapore(G/IT/SPEC/Q1/8); Slovak Republic (G/IT/SPEC /Q1/19); Switzerland (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/10); Thailand
(G/IT/SPEC/Q1/23); Turkey (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/14); and the United States (G/IT/SPEC/Q1/12).G/IT/22
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c) What international guidelines or standards, if any, are those procedures based on?  If
not, what guidelines or standards are they based on?
4. Has your regulatory authority received any complaint or had any problems regarding the
EMC/EMI aspects of the approved information technology products?  If yes, how frequent?And please identify the nature of the complaint/problem.
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