> According to this site, the MRA process is being delayed.

The author, David Imeson does not understand the process.  The MRA comes in
two flavors:
(1) Acceptance of Test reports
(2) Acceptance of Certificates of Compliance

Phase 1, acceptance of test reports started on 1 December 1998
Problem is that the laboratory needs to be accredited these days, where
in the past there was no such requirement.  That same problem is there 
for American firms.  Accreditation is to Guide 25. and asserts technical
capability
to test to FCC and/or CISPR22 requirements.

Phase 2 is a different kettle of fish.  It starts for the USA (I believe)
12 months after
Phase 1 has started (for Canada, 18 months after the start of Phase 1). 
The Telecom Certification Bodies require accreditation to Guide 68.  Indeed
the US
does insist that a Certification Body must also be a Test Laboratory and
capable of verifying and test reports it gets from laboratories.

Both in Canada, and in the USA, the requirements for these Certification
bodies are now being formulated.  This is the first time that the US and
Canadian goverments give up the carefully held right to Certify.  I believe
that technically, they do not relinquish the right to approve, even if for
all practical intents and purposes, anything that is certified, is
approved.  Since the EU MRA is only one of a number of MRAs under
development, whatever goes for the countries of the European Union, will go
for Upper Slobovia, if an MRA is concluded with Upper Slobovia.  That is
what makes the regulators nervous.

Anyway, Phase 1 is in operation and Canada and the USA (FCC and Industry
Canada) will accept test reports from "Designated Laboratories" in the EU

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