On May 15, 2025, an update of the listed RED standards was published. Around 1.5 years after the last amendment, which included radio and EMC. The last amendment from January this year included the standards on cybersecurity.
Fortunately, discussions between ETSI and the Commission have taken place, allowing the Commission to list some interesting standards.
The important radio EMC standards of the ETSI EN 301 489 series are now in the Official Journal (title shortened):
Newly listed:
EN 301 489-3 V2.3.2
EMC Short Range Devices (SRD) between 9 kHz and 246 GHz
EN 301 489-17 V3.3.1
EMC Broadband and Wideband Data Transmission Systems (Bluetooth, WLAN, ZigBee, ...)
EN 301 489-19 V2.2.1
EMC Receive Only Mobile Earth Stations (ROMES) operating in the 1.5 GHz, GNSS receiver (GPS, Galileo, ...)
EN 301 489-52 V1.3.1
EMC Cellular Communication User Equipment (UE) radio and ancillary equipment
EN 301 489-54 V1.1.1
EMC Fixed ground based aeronautical and meteorological radars
The following previously listed standards were listed with fewer restrictions.
EN 301 489-12 V3.2.1
EMC Satellite Interactive Earth Stations
EN 301 489-20 V2.2.1
Mobile Earth Stations (MES) used in the Mobile Satellite Services (MSS)
EN 301 489-52 V1.2.1
EMC Cellular Communication User Equipment (UE) radio and ancillary equipment
For all EMC standards, chapter 6 "Performance criteria" must not be used for presumption of conformity. The chapter describes the assessment of the immunity tests. The assessment is not clear enough for the Commission. This leaves more work for the manufacturer in terms of risk assessment.
The second restriction of the EU Commission is more of a formal nature for these radio technologies. It is criticized that interference emissions below 9 kHz are not taken into account. This point should also be considered in the risk assessment.
The listing of various radio standards (RED Art.:3.2) is pleasing, in particular because the EU Commission had actually announced that it would not list them due to a breach of technological openness. The standards that we consider important are listed below.
ETSI EN 303 893 V2.2.1
5 GHz WAS/RLAN;
Transition period to the predecessor standard until May 15, 2028
ETSI EN 303 687 V1.1.1
6 GHz WAS/RLAN; observe restrictions.
EN 301 908-13 V13.3.1
Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) User Equipment (UE)
EN 301 908-25 V15.1.1
New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE)
As well as various standards on wideband and radar technologies
A transition period until November 15, 2026 applies to almost all replaced standards. Only 5 GHz WLAN has a significantly longer transition period.
No standard has been removed from the Official Journal that does not have a successor.
We will keep you up to date and will be happy to provide you with further details.
Would you like to read more about standardization and radio? Then you can find more articles here:
→ Radio standards due for deletion from the OJEU from January 14, 2025
→ New ETSI EMC standards of the EN 301 489 series and other listings in the OJEU on RED from December 03, 2024
Author's note
This article has been machine translated into English.
TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
OJEU: Official Journal of the EU
RED: Radio Equipment Directive
ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute
One of the three EU standards organizations (ESO)
NB: Notified Body (third party body, required for a type examination)
Standards = Norms
