ARLA/CLUSTER: Nova directiva europeia ameaça os kits para radioamadores

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

EU threat to Amateur Radio kits

Thilo DL9KCE, reports a threat to amateur radio kits and modified
equipment arising from changes to the EMC directive.

Currently amateur radio kits and modified equipment are specifically
excluded from the directive but under the proposed changes they would
be fully subjected to the EMC directive. The resulting high compliance
costs could make it uneconomic to develop and sell kits so killing off
the kit market. If radio amateurs wished to modify equipment it
appears they would also incur additional costs and bureaucratic
hassle.

On the IARU Region 1 site, Thilo, DL9KCE, writes:
As part of the New Legislative Framework (NLF) alignment package the
European Commission is reworking some directives. One of the affected
directives is the EMC directive including some major changes. Most of
them are neutral or even good from an amateur radio operators
perspective. However there are two slight changes, which very much
affect radio amateurs. In short words:

1. The sentence “Kits of components to be assembled by radio amateurs
and commercial equipment modified by and for the use of radio amateurs
are not regarded as commercially available equipment.” is to be
deleted in the new version. That would render kits and modified
equipment to be fully subjected to the EMC directive!

2. The definition of the term ‘electromagnetic disturbance’ will
include the wanted signal of a radio as a possible source. This is not
in line with the radio regulation of the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) and not in line with the vocabulary of
the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC).

IARU Region 1 will respond to it with a letter soon.

However we strongly suggest, that you contact your local MEPs and tell
them about those two changes in the EMCD, that are neither in line
with the reasoning of the New Legislative Framework, nor does it help
to improve protection of radio services or equipment.

Your can find out who your MEP is and write to them at
http://www.writetothem.com/

Directive 1999/5/EC see ANNEX I
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:1999:091:0010:0010:EN:PDF


Fonte: IARU Região 1