The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption and Amendment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 5 of the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption and Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2512) (the “2010 Regulations”), which exempts short range devices, to refer to an updated interface requirement (IR 2030). This interface requirement has been amended to reflect Commission Decision 2013/752/EU amending Decision 2006/771/EC on harmonisation of the radio spectrum for use by short-range devices (OJ No L 334, 13.12.2013, p.17). It has also been amended to extend the exemption to short range devices in the 870-876 MHz and 915-921 MHz frequency bands.

Regulation 2(3) also amends the 2010 Regulations by inserting regulation 9, which creates a new exemption for land-based earth stations on mobile platforms complying with the relevant interface requirement, and regulation 10, which creates a new exemption for Citizens’ Band radio equipment.

Interface requirements are published by OFCOM in accordance with Article 4.1 of Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (OJ No L 91, 7.4.1999, p10). Copies of interface requirements referred to in these Regulations may be obtained from OFCOM at Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HA and are available on the OFCOM website at http://www.ofcom.org.uk.

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that these Regulations will have on costs to business is available to the public from OFCOM’s website at http://www.ofcom.org.uk or from the OFCOM library at Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HA (Tel: [phone]). Copies of this assessment have also been placed in the library of the House of Commons.