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MIIT issue draft circular to replace 01/2021/TT-BTTTT & 11/2020/TT-BTTTT – VIETNAM

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Vietnam

05-12-2022

MIIT issue draft circular to replace 01/2021/TT-BTTTT & 11/2020/TT-BTTTT

The Vietnamese Regulator, MIC, have issued a draft Circular to replace 11/2020/TT-BTTTT and 01/2021/TT-BTTTT, which are mandatory for Type Approval Certification and Declaration of Conformity.

The main additions are:

1)New QCVN technical standards are Updates,

      ⇒QCVN 128:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G base station);

      ⇒QCVN 127:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G SA – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

      ⇒QCVN 129:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G NSA – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

      ⇒QCVN 124:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for Vehicle Radar 76-77GHz – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

      ⇒QCVN 123:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for SRD 40-246GHz) – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

       ⇒QCVN 65:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for WLAN 5.0GHz device – can be applied from 2022-05-01 and be mandatory from 2023-07-01)

       ⇒QCVN 22:2021/BTTTT (Safety standard for ICT product – importers are to comply with this standard themselves as the standard is not mandatory according to Annexes No. 1 and 2 of the Draft Circular)

2) A few products were moved from Annex No. 1 (compulsory for TA Certification and Declaration of Conformity) to Annex No. 2 (compulsory for Declaration of Conformity):

3)76-77 GHz vehicle radars;

4)General SRDs operating in the following bands:

         ♦13,553- 13,567 MHz,

         ♦26,957-27,283 MHz,

         ♦40,66-40,7 MHz,

         ♦5725-5850 MHz,

         ♦24,00-24,25 GHz,

         ♦61,0-61,5 GHz,

         ♦122-123 GHz,

         ♦244-246 GHz;

         ♦13.56MHz RFID;

         ♦Some of land mobile radio equipment.

3)Numerous positions were removed from the mandatory list:

  • ♣5.8 GHz equipment which is used for transport application;
  • ♣Marine VHF devices;
  • ♣Inmarsat F77 devices;
  • ♣Section “Other devices”.

Draft Circular may take effect on 01, July 2022. Official Document

Regulatory Framework for SRD & IoT services – PAKISTAN

Regulatory Type Approval in Pakistan

Pakistan

05-03-2022

REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR SRD & IOT SERVICES IN PAKISTAN

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has published the Regulatory Framework for Short Range Devices (SRDs) and Terrestrial Internet of Things (IoT). PTA will begin accepting Class Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) Licensing applications starting March 31, 2022.

Official Document

Expect Type Approval Delay – UKRAINE

Ukraine - Type Approval Regulatory news

Ukraine

02-03-2022

Expect Type Approval Delay

Due to the current political conflict in Ukraine & Russia , we are expected delay for getting Type Approvals for the products.

There are three main reasons for this:

  1. EU as well as the Russian Federation have reciprocally shut their airspace.
  2. DHL and other logistics companies ship no longer to the Russian Federation at the moment, which directly affects sample delivery for mandatory local lab tests.
  3. Due to renewed EU sanctions, it will come to payment issues as selected Russian bankshave been excluded from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system of financial messaging.

Expect Type Approval Delay – RUSSIA

Russia - Type Approval Regulatory news

Russia

02-03-2022

Expect Type Approval Delay

Expect Type Approval Delay

Due to the current political conflict in Ukraine & Russia , we are expected delay for getting Type Approvals for the products.

There are three main reasons for this:

  1. EU as well as the Russian Federation have reciprocally shut their airspace.
  2. DHL and other logistics companies ship no longer to the Russian Federation at the moment, which directly affects sample delivery for mandatory local lab tests.

Due to renewed EU sanctions, it will come to payment issues as selected Russian banks have been excluded from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system of financial messaging

BSMI AMENDMENTS TO THE CONFORMITY MARK REGARDING QR CODES – TAIWAN

Taiwan Type Approval

Taiwan

01-03-2022

BSMI AMENDMENTS TO THE CONFORMITY MARK REGARDING QR CODES

Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI), published amendments to the Conformity Mark Regarding QR Codes. All Type Approval applicants are required to use the Conformity Mark in accordance with these Regulations, except for those approved by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology, and Inspection (BSMI) to be exempt from this requirement.

Main changes:

        ♥ Regarding Declaration of Conformity (DoC), BSMI designated codes where the product is announced by the BSMI to include a QR code, an application for QR code shall be made to the BSMI before a certificate is issued or when applying a registration of declaration of conformity.

         ♥ For devices granted product registration certificates prior to the entry into force of the announcement of products to bear QR code, the application for QR code shall be made before the products are imported or transported out of the manufacturing premises.

         ♥ For products announced by the BSMI to include a QR code in the designated code that are too small or for other specific causes to accommodate the Mark, they may apply to affixing the QR code as specified in Article 9 of the amendment

MTIT Updates certificate validity – YEMEN

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Yemen

01-03-2022

MTIT Updates certificate validity

The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology (MTIT) in Yemen informs about several significant changes in Type Approval Regulations. Main changes :

  1. Certificate validity will be extended from 1 year to 3 years;
  2. Certificates will cover only one production location.

MTIT is currently working to issue a new regulation to update the certificate validity from 1 year to 3 years. This regulation will apply to all pending and new certificates, and it will be officially published once it receives final approval from the Yemen government

The authorization for the entry into the country of some devices is extended to the General Import Regime- – URUGUAY

Uruguay Type Approval

Uruguay

01-03-2022

The authorization for the entry into the country of some devices is extended to the General Import Regime

By URSEC Resolution No. 297/2021 dated December 23, 2021, it was decided to extend to the General Import Regime the authorization of devices that only operate in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to enter the country without requiring the prior intervention of this Regulatory Unit, in accordance with the provisions of URSEC Resolution No. 275/021 of December 9, 2021. It is recalled that these are devices that operate in the frequency bands from 2.4 GHz to 2.4835 GHz and/or 5.725 GHz to 5,850 GHz, known as Wifi4, Wifi5 and Wifi6 and/or Bluetooth. They must comply with the conditions already specified in the Resolution of this Regulatory Unit No. 275/021 of December 9, 2021 and will not require the prior intervention of URSEC

 

Import of Drone under HS Code 8806 prohibited – INDIA

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India

28-02-2022

Import of Drone under HS Code 8806 prohibited

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) of India published information about drone importation restrictions. Import policy of drones in CBU/CKD/SD from under HS Code 8806 is prohibited with exceptions provided for R&D, defense and security purpose

The notification was published on February 9, 2022 and became effective immediately

Samples mandatory for ARTCI Type Approval – IVORY COAST

Ivory Coast Telecom Regulatory Authority

Ivory Coast

19-02-2022

Samples mandatory for ARTCI Type Approval

ARTCI, the Authority has requested strict adherence to the regulatory guidelines for Type Approval. Under Article 9 of the ARTCI Regulations, it is mandatory to provide a normal sample for any new request for approval or renewal of an expired certificate.

This is not a change in regulation, but a strict enforcement of the current regulation due to the result of a state audit on the management of state-owned enterprises, including the telecommunication authority ARTCI  new administration team 

 

CITC update technical specification GEN002 – Saudi Arabia

Saudi Wireless Regulatory Services

Saudi

15-02-2022

CITC update technical specification GEN002

CITC technical specification numbered “GEN002 – Requirements for Specific ICT Equipment” that stated the following 5G NR frequency requirements (n1, n3, n8, n28, n40, n71 and n77) entering into force on July 1st-2022 for both categories (Requirements for Mobile Phones, Tablets and Mobile Computers and Requirements for Mobile Routers and CPEs.)  

CITC informed that that the n71 frequency band will not be mandatorily required in 2022, and only frequency bands: n1, n3, n8, n28, n40 and n77 will be required in addition to the current n41 and n78 requirement

New enforcement date of n71 will be update soon.