ECS 69/2019 Final Determination Revise License Exempt Spectrum and Guideline for Type Approval of License Exempt Devices
In this document, the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) issues this Final Determination on the Revisions to the Final Determinations Class Licences, Exemptions and Types of Fees (ECS 24/2009) and Guidelines for the Type Approval Certificate of Licence‐Exempt Radio Spectrum Devices (ECS 02/2013).
URCA issued the Preliminary Determination for this consultation on 5 July 2019. This Final Determination, which is a revision of the Final Determinations on Class Licences, Exemptions, and Types of Fees (ECS 24/2009) and Guidelines for the Type Approval Certificate of Licence‐Exempt Radio Spectrum Devices (ECS 02/2013), had the following core objectives:
Revise Annex G of the Final Determination: Class Licences, Exemptions, and Types of Fees (ECS 24/2009) to allow URCA to grant a type approval certificate for new categories or types of low power electronic communications devices that satisfy the requirements for exemption set out in section 17(3) of the Comms Act; and
Revise the Guidelines for the Type Approval of Licence‐Exempt Radio Spectrum Devices (ECS 02/2013) to make it possible for URCA to exclude other categories or types of low power electronic communications devices from licensing.
Invite comments from stakeholders on the Preliminary determination setting out the proposed revisions.
The responses to the consultation were due on 5 August 2019.
