SURVEY ON EMC/EMI
Replies to the Survey
Communication
from Qatar
The following communication,
dated 25 October 2016, is being circulated at the request of the
Delegation of Qatar.
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1. (a) Does your Government have mandatory
technical requirements for electromagnetic interference of Information
Technology equipment? If so, please identify.
Communications
Regulatory Authority (CRA) in Qatar is the responsible body for regulating the
Telecommunications and Information Technology sector, Postal sector, access to
digital media and Spectrum.
The
Type Approval Policy for RTTE, issued in accordance with Decree Law
No. (34) of 2006 on the promulgation of the Telecommunications Law,
regulates the equipment's EMC compliance with applicable international
standards and requirements, for all the RTTE devices to be imported or to
be used in the state of Qatar. This Policy elaborates the Type Approval Regime
applicable in Qatar.
(b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR 22?
If not, please explain the current requirements.
Yes,
for IT products, the Type Approval regime requires the compliance with
CISPR 22 or EN 55022. EN 55022 is the European harmonized
standard and is identical to CISPR 22.
2. (a) Does your government have mandatory
technical requirements for electromagnetic immunity of Information Technology
equipment? If so, please identify.
Yes,
the CRA requires the compliance with EMI requirements, as explained
above.
(b) Are these requirements harmonized with
CISPR 24? If not, please explain the current requirements.
Yes,
for IT products, the Type Approval regime requires the compliance with
CISPR 24 or EN 55022. EN 55022 is the European harmonized
standard and is identical to CISPR 24.
3. (a) What conformity assessment procedure for electromagnetic
compatibility (EMC/EMI), which includes both interference and immunity, does
your government require for approval of information technology products?
The
conformity assessment procedure is described in the RTTE Guidelines. The
CRA makes documentary checks to determine the required declaration of
conformity, in accordance with recognized accredited international and national
standards making bodies and agencies, as approved by the CRA. The details of
approved standards/bodies is available on CRA website.
(b) May suppliers perform these procedures (e.g.
testing, declaration of conformity), or must third parties perform these
procedures?
Supplier's
or manufacturer's Declaration of Conformity, and/or accompanying test reports
from recognized Testing Laboratories is the procedure applicable.
CRA
accept the results performed by one of accredited testing and measurement
bodies or agencies, officially recognized by the Authority, which is available
on CRA website.
(c) What international guidelines or standards,
if any, are those procedures based on? If not, what guidelines or standards are
they based on?
Since
the conformity assessment procedure is Declaration of Conformity, the DoC must
be in accordance with ISO/IEC standard.
4. Has
your regulatory authority received any complaint or had any problems regarding
the EMC/EMI aspects of the approved information technology products? If
yes, how frequent? And please identify the nature of the complaint/problem.
Currently
the statistics on complaints about EMC/EMI aspects of information
technology products do not exist.
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