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