24-12-2020
Effective from 1st January 2021, manufacturers and suppliers of “Electrical (Household Appliances, IT Equipment)” exporting to Iraq must obtain the CoR prior to shipments. This will be a mandatory prerequisite to be issued the import license
21-12-2020
The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) received this month the first place in the customer service quality category of the Good Regulatory Practices Recognition contest of the Latin American Forum of Telecommunications Regulatory Entities (Regulatel). The recognition to the Agency was the result of gains for consumers resulting from the Anatel Consumidor application, launched in November 2019.
The Brazilian project competed with initiatives presented by the regulators of Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and the Dominican Republic, which, for the most part, also dealt with ways of digitizing dispute procedures and how to use complaints for the decision-making. In the quality of service to users category, the award went to the Federal Institute of Telecomunicaciones (IFT), of Mexico.
According to a speech by Anatel’s president, Leonardo Euler de Morais, at the XXIII Plenary Assembly of Regulatel, the Agency “has been working tirelessly to provide Brazilian society with a service compatible with the importance and size of our market. Satisfying satisfactorily a universe of more than 200 million consumers is not a simple task ”.
He recalled that “through the Anatel consummator platform, the Agency was able to implement a friendly and easy-to-use tool, which allows consumers to evaluate the response given by their provider to their complaints”
18-12-2012
Nepal’s NTA announced to monitor the market to enforce the certification of cell phones.
According to NTA this monitoring is to tackle the high ratio of 50% of handsets without certification. Customers will have to provide their handset’s IMEI to obtain a SIM card to prevent the usage of unregistered phones.
The Type Approval Certification itself will be improved and helped by consultants.
17-12-2020
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) informed that only a reduced number of business processes will be available during the period from 17 to 31 December 2020.
From 4 January 2021, all the ICASA offices will be fully working. The applications which are currently under technical evaluation will be continued in January 2021.
15-12-2020
The Standards Institution of Israel (SII) notified about the transition to the SI 62368 requirements for audio/video and similar equipment as well as IT equipment. Thus, if you already have SII approval against SI 60950-1 or SI 60065 requirements, you need to apply for re-approval against SI 62368 requirements.
However, the process of SII approval depends on the type of equipment. If the equipment has previously been approved against SI 60950-1 requirement, the transition to SI 62368 standard can be carried out through the paperwork without local testing.
But when we talk about products that were subject to SI 60065 requirements, they need to pass local testing to obtain SII approval against SI 62368 requirements.
Please, note that it is assumed that SII Approvals received against either SI 60950-1 or SI 60065 will become invalid in Israel after December 20, 2020
15-12-2020
New EMC requirements in Azerbaijan. According to these announcements, the AZS certificate will no longer cover both safety and EMC requirements, and the EMC directives should be approved via separate procedure, providing that the EMC certificate can only be registered by an accreditation body certified in this field
11-12-2020
ANATEL released the Public consultation n.º 82/2020 (annex) in order to update the Act 14448 (Technical Requirements For Assessing Conformity Assessment of Restricted Radiation Equipment) to include the testing and limits for the 5925-7125 MHz range. This update will allow manufacturers to approve devices with WIFI 6E technology in Brazil.
The public consulting will expire on Jan 24th next year. After that ANATEL will evaluate the comments, reply and publish the final document. This date is unknown and it will depend on the numbers of contributions.
The official document can be access using the link below:
10-12-2020
The National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency is updating data relating to radio amateurs, holders of amateur licenses in Morocco. Radio amateurs are invited to update, no later than December 31, 2020 , their data via a registration form.
For any additional information request, please contact the Authorizations Department on 05 37 71 85 53/25 or on the following email address: radioamateur@anrt.ma )
Form :
https://www.anrt.ma/formulaire-dinscription-damateur
10-12-2020
SY-TPRA will no longer accept test reports depending on IEC 60950-1 / IEC 60065 after 20.12.2020 and will replace it with the standard EN 62368
Only renewal certificates will be accepted for the products approved on the old standards
10-12-2020
UAE low voltage equipment (LVE), such as audio/video or other IT equipment, should meet the requirements of IEC 62368-1:2014 (2nd Edition) or IEC 62368-1:2018 (3d Edition) and also have valid ECAS/EQM certificates of conformity
