IMPACT FOR WIRELESS: NO
IMPACT FOR ITE: NO
As ENTIRETY has previously informed, the Mexican Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), published on September 2015 a public consultation seeking comments on the draft of the guidelines to accredit, designate and recognize test laboratories in Mexico. Now, after the end of the public consultation process on November 6, 2015, the IFT published the final version of the guidelines in the Federation Official Diary (DOF). The new regulation will come into force in June 2016.
The dispositions of the guideline will be mandatory for:
National third party test laboratories interested in the accreditation and authorization of the IFT under the broadcasting and telecommunications law and the mutual recognition agreement, with regard to the ISO/IEC 17025 norm, and for tests application effects, or determination of one or more characteristics of a product or telecommunications and broadcasting infrastructure subject to conformity evaluation under any foreign disposition, technical norm or technical regulation in telecommunications and broadcasting matter.
National third party tests laboratories interested in the IFT designation regarding foreign technical regulations to perform tests as an evaluation of conformity of infrastructure and telecommunications and broadcasting products activities, which observance is mandatory on the frame of the corresponding mutual recognition agreement.
Foreigners third party test laboratories designated by the foreign government regulatory authority in the frame of a mutual recognition agreement interested in their recognition by the IFT.
Accreditation bodies interested in the IFT authorization to accredit test laboratories, following the ISO/IEC 17011 norm.