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Towards a Fully Connected Wireless World

Radio technology is an integral part of our daily lives. We use it Online
for mobile phones, for broadcast radio and television, in Wireless Work
Local Area Network and cordless technology, Global Navigation Programme
Satellite Systems (GNSS), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
and short range devices (SRDs). ETSI creates the standards which
define many of these radio technologies and systems.
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We also provide the standards which the regulatory authorities Work
in Europe – and elsewhere – use to manage the radio spectrum Programme
environment and to ensure safe co-existence between all the
systems which compete for use of limited spectrum resources.

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Harmonised Standards and the Radio receivers, equipment operating at frequencies below 9 kHz
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Equipment Directive and radio determination equipment (including GNSS
We provide a wide range of Harmonised Standards by which equipment) are included.
manufacturers are able to demonstrate that their products We provided the EC with an initial work programme listing
comply with a European Commission (EC) Directive, allowing the new standards and revisions required. It includes
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them to be placed on the market or put into service. In this revising existing standards and developing new ones for
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way, we play an important part in helping to create a large, aeronautical, maritime and meteorological radar. (Our
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unified European market.
work also takes account of the evolving use of the radio
spectrum, with increasingly dense use of the SRD bands at
The new Radio Equipment Directive (RED), which replaces 863 - 870 MHz, 2,45 GHz and 5,8 GHz, and work to liberate
the Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment spectrum for mobile broadband and 5G developments.)
(R&TTE) Directive, was applied throughout the European The work programme is updated on an ongoing basis and
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Union (EU) from June 2016 and compliance is mandatory the EC has introduced additional requirements to ensure
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with effect from June 2017. Our wireless work throughout our Harmonised Standards integrate smoothly with the
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2017 will continue to be dominated by the development of 2012 Standardisation Regulation, in particular with the
standards to support the RED.
‘Vademecum’, published in October 2015. Reworking our
Harmonised Standards to include these new procedures
The RED covers all products that deliberately use radio and technical requirements has introduced delays, and
waves for communication or for determining their position, created concerns for manufacturers. We are working closely
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regardless of primary function. This means, for example, any with the relevant EC services to minimise delays and come
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product which includes a satellite positioning system (e.g. to agreement as soon as possible where new technical
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Global Positioning System, Galileo), Bluetooth, RFID, Radio requirements are requested. In particular, we have prioritised
Local Area Networks (RLANs) or Near Field Communication Harmonised Standards for the use of radio spectrum and
functions. The RED puts specific requirements on the access to emergency services, as these standards need to be
performance of radio receivers that they do not use more of cited in the Official Journal of the EU before manufacturers
the spectrum than is necessary. For the first time, broadcast
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can declare compliance without recourse to a third party
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Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and Radio
Spectrum Matters
Although work in support of the RED is spread across a
wide range of our committees, for many years our EMC and
Radio Spectrum Matters committee (TC ERM) provided more
than 75% of the Harmonised Standards required under the
R&TTE Directive, and the committee is working on about 160
Harmonised Standards related to the RED.

We are revising all parts (currently more than 50) of
our existing EMC multipart Harmonised Standards and
developing new EMC Harmonised Standards for equipment
not covered under the R&TTE Directive, but which is now
under the scope of the RED. This includes, for example,
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT™),
certain marine equipment, Private Mobile Radio (PMR)/

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