The Australian Communication and Media Authority has opened the 3 following public consultations:
Consultation 35/2022 – New arrangements for low interference potential devices: Proposed new arrangements for radiocommunications receivers communicating with satellites in the 915–928 MHz and 2400–2483.5 MHz bands, frequency-hopping radiocommunications transmitters in the 5925–6425 MHz band, and radio local area network (RLAN) radiocommunications transmitters in the 5150–5250 MHz band.
Open until December 5th, 2022
Consultation 37/2022 – Proposed changes to radiocommunications equipment regulation: Proposed to include radiocommunications mandatory technical standards and labeling requirements into the Radiocommunications Equipment (General Equipment Rules). Following is a summary of the proposed changes:
- Standards:
- Repealing the current 14 radiocommunications mandatory technical standards and the RLN.
- Incorporating the content of 13 radiocommunications mandatory technical standards and the RLN into the General Equipment Rules
- Adoption of 5 ETSI standards
- Remaking the determination of the protected symbol to remove the A-Tick and C-Tick marks as protected symbols.
- Amending the EME test method in the General Equipment Rules to adopt IEC/IEEE 63195-1:2022 and IEC/IEEE 63195-2:2022.
This public consultation open until December 15th, 2022
Consultation 38/2022 – Review of 2 GHz spectrum licensing technical framework: Proposed changes in the 2 GHz band spectrum licenses conditions focused on the unwanted emissions in the frequency range 2100–2110 MHz.Open until December 16th, 2022
Type Approval Impacted? No
Spectrum Impacted? 915–928MHz, 2400–2483.5 MHz, 5925–6425 MHz, 5150–5250 MHz, 2100–2110 MHz.
Imports Impacted? No
Standards: General Equipment Rules, ACMA radiocommunications mandatory technical standards
Product Impacted? Radio Equipment including SRD, Data Networking Equipment.