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ORGANIZATIONG/IT/SPEC/Q4/18
18 September 2002
(02-4960)
Committee of Participants on the Expansion
of Trade in Information Technology ProductsOriginal:  English
SURVEY ON EMC/EMI
Replies to the Survey
Communication from Turkey
The following communication, dated 16 September 2002, has been received from the
Permanent Mission of Turkey.
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1. (a) Does your government have mandatory technical requirements for
electromagnetic interference of information tec hnology equipment? If so, please identify.
Yes, the Turkish Telecommunications Authority requires the manufacturers to comply with
the electromagnetic interference requirements set forth in the R&TTE Directive of the
European Community, whose transposition work into Turkish legal order is about to be
finalized. The draft Regulation on radio and telecommunications terminal equipment,
transposing EU’s R&TTE Directive is expected to be published in the Official Journal soon.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has published the Regulation on electromagneticcompatibility, transposing EU’s EMC Directive in the Official Journal on 2.6.2002 to enter
into force on 2.6.2003.
(b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR 22?  If not, please explain the
current requirements.
Yes, the European harmonized standard EN 55022, for which a general reference exists in the
R&TTE Directive and application of which is voluntary according to the said Directive, is
identical to CISPR 22.
2. (a) Does your government have mandatory technical requirements for
electromagnetic immunity of information technology equipment? If so, please identify.
Yes, the Turkish Telecommunications Authority requires the manufacturers to comply with
the electromagnetic immunity requirements as explained in point 1a.G/IT/SPEC/Q4/18
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(b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR 24?  If not, please explain the
current requirements.
Yes, the European harmonized standard EN 55024, for which a general reference exists in the
R&TTE Directive and application of which is voluntary according to the said Directive, isidentical to CISPR 24.
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?
The conformity assessment procedure is described in the R&TTE Directive. The
Telecommunications Authority makes documentary checks to determine whether the requiredconformity assessment procedures have been applied correctly by the manufacturer.
(b) May suppliers perform these procedures (e.g. testing, declaration of conformity),
or must third parties perform these procedures?
Under the R&TTE Directive, testing and declaration of conformity by the supplier is possible,
however, if the supplier chooses not to apply harmonized standards or there are no
harmonized standards, third party opinion is sought.
(c) What international guidelines or standards, if any, are those procedures based
on? If not, what guidelines or standards are they based on?
The guidelines and standards those procedures are based on are identical to relevant
international guidelines and standards.
4. Has your regulatory authority received any complaint or had any problems regarding
EMC/EMI aspects of approved information  technology products?  If yes, how
frequent?  And please identify the nature of the complaint/problem.
Currently the statistical studies regarding complaints about telecommunicatios are under way,
statistics on complaints about EMC/EMI aspects of information technology products do not
exist. However, after the entry into force of the draft Regulation mentioned above, statistical
data will be formed for all information technology product groups, including EMC/EMI
aspects, to be used in market surveillance activities.
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