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10.3.1 Radio Equipment Directive
The Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU (RED) establishes a regulatory framework for
placing radio equipment on the market. It ensures a Single Market for radio equipment by
setting essential requirements for safety and health, electromagnetic compatibility, and the
efficient use of the radio spectrum.
The RED aligned the previous Directive, the Radio and Telecommunication Terminal Equipment
Directive 1999/5/EC (R&TTED), with the new legislative framework for the marketing of
products. The RED is applicable as of 2016-06-13. It included a one-year transitional period,
which ended on 2017-06-12 (Article 48). On 2017-06-20, the Commission Implementing
Regulation (EU) 2017/1354 was adopted. This specifies how to present the information
provided for in Article 10(10) of Directive 2014/53/EU.
Article 10(10) RED
In cases of restrictions on putting into service or of requirements for authorisation of use,
information available on the packaging shall allow the identification of the Member States or the
geographical area within a Member State where restrictions on putting into service or
requirements for authorisation of use exist. Such information shall be completed in the
instructions accompanying the radio equipment. The Commission may adopt implementing acts
specifying how to present that information. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in
accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 45(2).
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Class 1:
Radio equipment that can be operated without any restriction in EU, EEA, and EFTA.
According to Article 8(1)b of the RED, it is clarified that no national radio interfaces
specifications are required to be notified under RED;
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Class 2:
Radio equipment subject to restrictions in one or more EU, EEA and EFTA countries
where:
– The technical parameters are not harmonised through EU, EEA, and EFTA;
– The technical parameters are harmonised through EU, EEA and EFTA, and do not
fall in above class 1 definition.
Radio equipment class means a class identifying particular categories of radio equipment
which, under this Directive, are considered similar and those radio interfaces for which the radio
equipment is designed.
Article 8 RED
Notification of radio interface specifications and assignment of radio equipment classes 1:
1) Member States shall notify, in accordance with the procedure set out in Directive 98/34/EC,
the radio interfaces which they intend to regulate except:
a) The radio interfaces which fully and without any deviation comply with the Commission
decisions on the harmonised use of radio spectrum adopted pursuant to Decision
No. 676/2002/EC; and