Bruce, >A quick question, >I have heard rumours from BSI that UK and Ireland have accepted the common >European standard for modem approvals. Can you confirm this? Is there an >Internet site I can use to keep tabs on what is happening?
A not so quick answer... prTBR21 was ratified by ETSI at the end of last year. The Technical Regulations Applications Committee (TRAC) will now add the regulatory text to TRB21 and the Approvals Committee for Terminal Equipment (ACTE) will submit the text to the European Commission (EC) to vote on. When accepted, the Common Technical Regulation (CTR21) will be published and all member states then have 12 months to implement CTR21 in law (or face hefty fines from the EC). The twist in the tail is that the final draft of prTBR21 contain advisory notes on national compliances. The result is that any equipment that complies with CTR21 can be sold in all the countries of the EU, provided the manufacturers documentation contains the advisory notes for the country in which it is sold. In the mean time... UK and Eires own national regulations have already been closely aligned to TBR21, with a few variations, and both UK and Eire regulatory authorities will accept TBR21 compliant reports against national approvals, to a point. UK NTR3 doesnt call up the DC limiting for example, but has additional labelling requirements. Eire will require additional testing for national call progress signal detection, but doesnt require testing of very low line current operation, 60mA current limiting (and a few other minor quirks). Also in Europe weve put TBR21 designs through Germany and Norway for national approvals, although Norway still required carrier detection down to -43dB. Switzerland will also accept TBR21 reports against Swiss national approvals, but then they add back in all the national call progress signal detection and high voltage withstand tests for which we love them so much ! Hope this helps. Best regards John Thorne ________________________________________________________________________ John Thorne - Director Cambridge Micro Engineering Ltd. Office: +44 (0)1223 893872 38 High Street Fax: +44 (0)1223 891760 Linton Cambridge Email: [email protected] CB1 6HS Web Site: http://www.cme.co.uk UK Electronics design consultancy and regulatory compliance engineering ________________________________________________________________________
