ISED CANADA -Standards currently under revision

RSP-102, Issue 1 – August 2020 Licence-Exempt Special Authorization Procedure for Terminal, Radio, Broadcasting and Interference-Causing Equipment to be Certified, Registered or Deemed in Compliance with Technical Equipment Standard(s)

RSS-191, Issue 4 – January 2020 Local Multipoint Communication Systems in the Bands 25.35-28.35 GHz; Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint Broadband Communication Systems in the Bands 24.25-24.45 GHz and 25.05-25.25 GHz; and Point-to-Multipoint Broadband Communications in the Band 38.6-40.0 GHz

ISED CANADA -New standards recently published

RSS-125, Issue 3 – June 2020 Land Mobile and Fixed Equipment Operating in the Frequency Range 1.705 MHz to 30 MHz

RSS-192 Issue 4 – May 2020 Flexible Use Broadband Equipment Operating in the Band 3450-3650 MHz

RSS-310, Issue 5 – January 2020 Licence-Exempt Radio Apparatus: Category II Equipment

RSS-210, Issue 10 – December 2019 Licence-Exempt Radio Apparatus: Category I Equipment

RSS-123, Issue 4 – August 2019  Licensed Wireless Microphones sets out the certification requirements for wireless microphones.

RSS-181, Issue 2 – August 2019, Coast and Ship Station Equipment Operating in the Maritime Service in the Frequency Range 1 605 – 28 000 kHz sets out the certification requirements for equipment operating in the maritime service in the frequency range 1 605-28 000 kHz.

RSP-100, Issue 12, Certification of Radio Apparatus sets out the certification procedure for radio apparatus and broadcasting equipment that fall under Radio Standards Specifications (RSSs) and Broadcasting Equipment Technical Standards (BETSs), respectively

FCC -New standards recently published

657217 D01 Personal Computer v03 December 2019, Provides guidance for Class B computers and their components.

896810 D01 SDoC v02-December 2019, provides guidance on the use of Suppliers Declaration of Conformity (SDoC)

940660 D02 CBSD Handshake Procedures v02-October 2019, provides guidance on equipment authorization of devices using CBSD handshake for SAS access.

International Standards recently published

IEC 61000-3:2020 SER
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) – Part 3: Limit – ALL PARTS

IEC 62209-2 AMD1:2016, September 2019, ISED provided this notice to advise all certification bodies (CB) of the publication of Notice 2019-DRS001. Starting immediately, CBs may apply the requirements of the IEC 62209-2 AMD1:2019 standard on a voluntary basis. However, starting on March 1, 2020, the requirements of IEC 62209-2 AMD1:2019 standard shall become mandatory.

IEC 62209-3:2019 Published on September 2019, Measurement procedure for the assessment of specific absorption rate of human exposure to radio frequency fields from hand-held and body-mounted wire-less communication devices – Part 3: Vector measurement-based systems (Frequency range of 600 MHz to 6 GHz)

EU Updates: Several new standards have been published by ETSI in November and December 2019.

ETSI EN 301 908-13 V13.1.1 (2019-11) for IMT cellular networks; Harmonized Standard for access to radio spectrum; Part 13: Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) User Equipment (UE)

ETSI EN 300 176-2 V2.3.1 (2019-12) for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Test specification; Part 2: Audio and speech

ETSI EN 300 175-8 V2.8.1 (2019-12) for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Common Interface (CI); Part 8: Speech and audio coding and transmission

ETSI EN 300 175-7 V2.8.1 (2019-12) for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Common Interface (CI); Part 7: Security features

ETSI EN 300 175-6 V2.8.1 (2019-12) for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Common Interface (CI); Part 6: Identities and addressing

ETSI EN 300 175-5 V2.8.1 (2019-12) for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Common Interface (CI); Part 5: Network (NWK) layer

ETSI EN 300 175-4 V2.8.1 (2019-12) for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Common Interface (CI); Part 4: Data Link Control (DLC) layer

ETSI EN 300 175-3 V2.8.1 (2019-12) for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Common Interface (CI); Part 3: Medium Access Control (MAC) layer

ETSI EN 300 175-2 V2.8.1 (2019-12) for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Common Interface (CI); Part 2: Physical Layer (PHL)

ETSI EN 300 175-1 V2.8.1 (2019-12) Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT); Common Interface (CI); Part 1: Overview

Coming Soon – Standards on approval

ETSI EN 319 403-1 V2.3.0 (2019-11) for Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Trust Service Provider Conformity Assessment; Part 1: Requirements for conformity assessment bodies assessing Trust Service Providers

ETSI EN 303 645 V2.0.0 (2019-11) for CYBER; Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things

ETSI EN 303 213-5-1 V1.0.0 (2019-12) for Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS); Part 5: Harmonized Standard for access to radio spectrum for Multilateration (MLAT) equipment; Sub-part 1: Receivers and Interrogators

ETSI EN 302 217-2 V3.2.1 (2019-12) for Fixed Radio Systems; Characteristics and requirements for point-to-point equipment and antennas; Part 2: Digital systems operating in frequency bands from 1 GHz to 86 GHz; Harmonized Standard for access to radio spectrum

ETSI EN 302 217-1 V3.2.1 (2019-12) for Fixed Radio Systems; Characteristics and requirements for point-to-point equipment and antennas; Part 1: Overview, common characteristics and system-independent requirements

ETSI EN 301 489-17 V3.2.2 (2019-12) for ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) standard for radio equipment and services; Part 17: Specific conditions for Broadband Data Transmission Systems; Harmonized Standard for ElectroMagnetic Compatibility

ETSI EN 300 019-2-8 V2.1.8 (2019-12) for Environmental Engineering (EE); Environmental conditions and environmental tests for telecommunications equipment; Part 2-8: Specification of environmental tests; Stationary use at underground locations