Author: Ann editor

The ANATEL issues Official notice 65/2021/ORCN/SOR-ANATEL on the extension of temporary procedure for the mandatory maintenance of the certificate. The procedure appeared in early March 2020 when the ANATEL issued its first official notice #134/2020. The Notice concerned emergency measures caused by the coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19). It allows an applicant to apply for certificate renewal without re-testing and presenting photos of the device in case it wasn’t technically modified.

Earlier, the ANATEL issued official notices #134/2020, 194/2020, and 646/2020 in due succession that gave specific instruction for the certification bodies with regard to temporary measures on the mandatory maintenance of the certificate procedure and specified the required documents necessary from the suppliers to get an opportunity to apply for the maintenance of the certificate through this temporary procedure. However, the validity of these notices were ended and to extend the validity of this procedure the ANATEL issues.

Now the ANATEL extends the Official notice 65/2021. Thus, certificates with expiry date between March 6, 2020 and December 31, 2021 are covered by this temporary procedure

ANATEL published the Act 3939 related to guideline of Declaration of Conformity (DoC) with testing report . The DoC procedure looks pretty much like the regular certification mode, but the applicant (local rep) can apply the procedure directly with ANATEL without requiring the use of one OCD (OCD is optional in this mode). E3Tech can handle the approval by DoC directly with ANATEL.

The requirements are basically the same (representative letter, manual, internal and external pictures, Factory ISO and testing report (overseas ILAC testing report is acceptable) and the CoC will be replaced by a DoC declaration. Applicant will submit the files to ANATEL and ANATEL will inspect the documents as usual before issuing the homologation.

The DoC is applicable only for a few types of equipment according to Act 7280, such as: Broadcasting equipment, RF Power Amplifier for Earth Station, Satellite Transceiver, etc. 

There is another DoC mode called “DoC with ANATEL Brand”. ANATEL did not published this procedure yet, but for those cases ANATEL will not review the application and the documents will be in a repository to be used just in case of market surveillance or customer complaint. When ANATEL publish this guideline we will send you more details.

Below is the Act 3939 official link: