On August 2016, the Canadian Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) published the Radio Standards Specification RSS-210, Issue 9, License-Exempt radio apparatus: category I equipment. This one replaces the Issue 8 of December 2010, and according to ISED, below are listed the principal changes:
1. Remove requirements for receivers, as these requirements are included in RSS-Gen, General Requirements for Compliance of Radio Apparatus.
2. Remove annexes that are no longer covered in RSS-210.
3. Specify that frequency bands which are exclusively used by the Government of Canada are added to Note 1 in Annex A.
4. Remove requirements for momentarily operated and remote control devices in the band 40.66-40.77 MHz, as these requirements are covered in Annex B.
5. Modify out-of-band emission limits for equipment operating in the band 13.110-14.010 MHz (Annex B).
6. Incorporate requirements for cordless telephones operating in the band 44/49 MHz (Annex 3 of Issue 8) into Annex B, as these requirements will apply to any type of communication.
7. Remove Section A4.2 of Issue 8, Band 174-216 MHz (Medical Telemetry), as this band is no longer permitted for the Wireless Medical Telemetry System.
8. Remove repeater frequency bands for General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) equipment.
9. Add requirements for GMRS-M in the frequency range 462.55-462.875 MHz in Annex E.
10. Amend the specifications for speed radar meters to include the band 33.4–36.0 GHz in Annex F. These devices were previously covered under Annex 7 of Issue 8 for frequency bands 10.5-10.55 GHz and 24.075-24.175 GHz.
11. Remove Annex 8 of Issue 8, Frequency Hopping and Digital Modulation Systems Operating in the Bands 902-928 MHz, 2400-2483.5 MHz and 5725-5850 MHz, and Annex 9 of Issue 8, Local Area Network Devices, as these annexes are covered in RSS-247 (published May 2015).
12. Incorporate RSS-210, Amendment 1, Licence-Exempt, Low-Power Radio Apparatus Operating in the Television Bands (published Feb 2015) into Annex G of this issue.
13. Remove Annex 11 of Issue 8, Level Probing Radar Devices Enclosed in Containers and Still
Pipes, as this annex is covered in RSS-211 (published March 2015).
14. Remove Section 13.1 of Annex 13 Issue 8, Vehicle-Mounted Field Disturbance Sensors in the Bands 46.7-46.9 GHz and 76-77 GHz, as this section is covered in RSS-251, Field Disturbance Sensors in the Bands 46.7-46.9 GHz (Vehicular Radar) and 76-77 GHz (Vehicular and Airport Fixed Radar (published March 2015).
15. Specify emission limits for devices in the band 57-64 GHz (in Annex J) in terms of equivalent isotropically radiated power (e.i.r.p.) instead of power density and increase the e.i.r.p. limit for outdoor fixed point-to-point equipment.
16. Adopt measurement method and emission mask in ETSI EN 300 422 for low-power radio apparatus operating in the TV bands.
17. Clarify limits for emissions radiated from digital circuitry contained within Wideband devices (Annex K).
The issue 9, came into force on August 2016.