WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.53
21February 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-0715)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: FINLAND
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Telecommunications Administration Centre (TAC)
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): ThisRegulation shall
apply tocordless telephones, wireless local areanetworks (RLAN), mobile terminals to
cellular systems, PR27telephones, control, telecommand, telemetry alarm anddata
transmission equipment, on-site paging systems, wireless microphones andhearing aids,
radars forcontrol, supervision andalert, mobile Inmarsat-C andInmarsat-M terminals,
OmniTRACS terminals oftheEUTELTACS system andsubscriber terminals ofthe
fixed subscriber networks operating inthe3400 to3500 MHz frequency band which all
operate oncollective frequencies defined intheRegulation THK 15H/96 M.
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Regulation onType
Approval Requirements forCertain Radio Equipment, THK 11G/97 M(13pages,
available inEnglish)
6. Description ofcontent: ThisdraftRegulation isanupdated version ofTHK 11F/96M
(notified inaccordance withWTO/TBT Agreement 95.251). Itsscope covers allradio
equipment exempted from individual licences. Thepurpose oftheamendments done
nowwastoupdate thestandard references andalign theregulation withamendments
done inanother regulation THK 15G/96 Mwhich defines thefrequencies andother
conditions forexemption from individual licences. Alsoprocedures concerning receiver
parts have been relaxed insuch awaythatforcases where therequirements for
receivers include only spurious radiation, amanufacturer 'sdeclaration isaccepted.
When spurious radiation becomes covered bytherelevant harmonized EMC standards
thisRegulation willbeamended toremove thisrequirement from thetypeapproval
regime. Forother cases concerning procedures forreceivers theoutcome ofthework in
theEC-ERC adhocgroup onthedraft ERC Decision onmutual recognition oftype
approval procedures forradio equipment willbeimplemented assoon asitbecomes
adopted bytheERC. Itistobeunderstood thatrequirements forDCS-1800 terminals
andsatellite terminals areofinterim nature andwillbereplaced byimplementation of
therelevant CTRs when these enter intoforce.
TheRegulation contains amutual recognition clause fortestreports from other
countries.
Radio equipment exempted from individual licences.
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7. Objective andrationale: TheaimofthisRegulation istheefficient useoftheradio
frequency spectrum.
8. Relevant documents: ThisRegulation isincluded intheSeries ofRegulations issued by
theTAC.
9. Proposed dateofadoption:
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:Tobedetermined
10. Final dateforcomments: 28April 1997
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: