USA – Seeking Comment on Modifying the Equipment Authorization Rules To Reflect the Updated Versions of the Currently Referenced ANSI C63.4 and ISO/IEC 17025 Standards

The Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) sought comment on updating the Commission's rules and procedures to reflect recent changes to two standards: (1) ANSI C63.4a- 2017 "American National Standard for Methods of Measurement of Radio- Noise Emissions from Low-Voltage Electrical and Electronic Equipment in the Range of 9 kHz to 40 GHz, Amendment 1: Test Site Validation;" and (2) ISO/IEC 17025:2017(E) "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories."

Products covered : Equipment authorization rules; Standardization. General rules (ICS 01.120), Radiocommunications (ICS 33.060), Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) (ICS 33.100), Noise emitted by machines and equipment (ICS 17.140.20), Test conditions and procedures in general (ICS 19.020), Electrical and electronic testing (ICS 19.080), Quality (ICS 03.120)

Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined

Final date for comments:7 June 2019

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