The Ministry of Transportation (MoT) in Bahrain transferred the reponsibility of short range devices type approval to a new authority called the Central Informatics & Communication Organization.

The new authority limited type approval certificates to three years validity period. This new three years validity period applies to new Type Approvals as well as to applications for extensions of expired Type Approval certificates.

However, Bahrain’s telecommunication regulatory authority (TRA) is still issuing Type Approvals for telecommunication product of a validity period of 6 months.