A relevant excerpt from European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) webpage for RED 2014/53/EU clarifies the scope of this directive:
Microchip’s clients manufacturing end-products with radio communication capabilities and shipping into the European Union (EU) market are responsible for ensuring their products comply with RED. Microchip plans to provide necessary technical support needed to enable our clients to complete their regulatory compliance obligations for their end-products.
The following FAQ will help outline the clients’ obligations and Microchip’s support for RED compliance.
Also refer to these FAQs – Radio Equipment Directive (RE-D) and Guide to the Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU from the European Commission for additional information.
(Note: Reference to end-product manufacturers are typically users/clients of Microchip’s who use Microchip’s RF ICs and modules in their products.)
End-product manufacturers should review RED and referenced standards in entirety to fully understand new and additional responsibilities required by RED compliance. A few of these responsibilities are summarized below with respect to the end-product (i.e. not Microchip’s IC or wireless module):
Harmonized standard for RED can be found at the link below:
http://www.etsi.org/standards/looking-for-an-etsi-standard/harmonised-standards
RED requires compliance to specific new ETSI standards. These new standards list technical requirements to be met that necessitate testing. Below is a list of standards applicable to Microchip’s RF products.
The above ETSI Standards Reviews are published standards and in the “Official Journal”, except for reviews marked with an asterisk*, which are currently draft standards.
(Last Updated: April 6, 2017)
Microchip has a long history of certifying radio module products to the latest standards and maintaining our compliance obligations with regulatory bodies worldwide, including ETSI. Microchip is also a member of RED Compliance Association (REDCA) and has been working closely with several regulatory compliance laboratories worldwide.
Specific to RED, Microchip has monitored the progress of various ETSI standards (both draft and harmonized) and identified laboratories worldwide which have setup test and measurement systems to perform the new tests mandated by the standards (for example, Receiver Blocking).
Microchip has scheduled/is scheduling time at various laboratories worldwide to certify our products in order to enable our clients to leverage our certification. See the current list of Microchip products that are compliant to RED in section 8.
Microchip strongly recommends our clients take the following steps:
Creating/updating collateral and making changes to packaging labels, etc. may take time. Starting early will help reach compliance in a timely manner.
Conformity Assessment to RED by way of ETSI Standards compliance testing in the EU can be performed in multiple ways as shown in the table below that has been reproduced from ETSI Guide EG 203 367 V1.1.1 (2016-06) “Guide to the application of harmonised standards covering articles 3.1b and 3.2 of the Directive 2014/53/EU (RED) to multi-radio and combined radio and non-radio equipment”
Based on RED conformity assessment, ETSI compliance testing can be performed as follows:
The conformity assessment performed on a radio product can be used as part of the conformity assessment of the combination of that radio product with a non-radio product. If the manufacturer of the combined equipment installs the radio product in a host non-radio product in equivalent assessment conditions (i.e. host equivalent to the one used for the assessment of the radio product) and according to the installation instructions for the radio product, then no additional assessment of the combined equipment against article 3.2 of the RED [i.1] is required.
To facilitate the above scenarios, Microchip will provide the following collateral support to our clients for RED compliance.
For Testing Approach #2, section 8 below provides the schedules for Microchip’s modules to be assessed to RED.
For Testing Approach #1, Micrcochip’s clients should pursue RED assessment of their end-products immediately. Note that Microchip may choose not to have some modules assessed under RED. These modules would typically be modules that do not have a shield or do not carry a CE mark today.
Once our clients are familiar with the relevant ETSI specifications governing RED-assessment of their end-product, laboratory test time needs to be scheduled for testing. Please check with the laboratory you are considering using if they are ready to perform RED compliance testing as incremental tests may require the labs to setup new testbeds. If a specific lab has certified the client’s end product in the past, then the Client only needs to perform the incremental tests required by the latest ETSI standards under RED. This may help shorten the time to transition to RED and optimize costs.
Products list and associated timelines are provided in the next section, Microchip Wireless Modules Certification schedule regarding Radio Equipment Directive (RED)
Please refer to the relevant product page for RED documentation
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