The Radio Equipment Regulations 2017
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2017/1206 |
- “the 1987 Act” means the Consumer Protection Act 1987 ;
- “accreditation” has the meaning set out in point 10 of Article 2 of RAMS (as amended from time to time) ;
- “accreditation certificate” means a certificate, issued by either the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (a company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales under number 03076190) or by a national accreditation body in another Member State, attesting that a conformity assessment body meets the notified body requirements;
- “authorised representative” means a person appointed in accordance with regulation 19;
- “CE marking” means a marking which takes the form set out in Annex II of RAMS (as amended from time to time) ;
- “competent national authority” means an authority having responsibility for enforcing the law of a Member State which implements the Directive;
- “conformity assessment” means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements relating to radio equipment have been fulfilled;
- “conformity assessment body” means a body that performs conformity assessment activities;
- “distributor” means any person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer, authorised representative or the importer, who makes radio equipment available on the market;
- “the Directive” means Directive 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment ;
- “economic operator” means a manufacturer, authorised representative, importer or distributor;
- “electromagnetic disturbance” has the meaning set out in point (5) of paragraph 1 of Article 3 of Directive 2014/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic compatibility ;
- “enforcing authority” means any person enforcing these Regulations under regulation 56 (enforcement) ;
- “essential requirements” means the requirements set out in regulation 6;
- “EU declaration of conformity” means a declaration of conformity required to be drawn up in accordance with regulation 42 by regulation 10(1) (a) (EU declaration of conformity) ;
- “European Commission” means the Commission of the European Union;
- “harmful interference” has the meaning set out in point (r) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (as amended from time to time) ;
- “harmonised standard” has the meaning set out in Article 2(1) (c) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European standardisation (as amended from time to time) ;
- “importer” means any person who—
- (a) is established within the EU; and
- (b) places radio equipment from a third country on the EU market;
- “make available on the market” means any supply for distribution, consumption or use of radio equipment on the EU market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge, and related expressions must be construed accordingly;
- “manufacturer” means a person who—
- (a) manufactures radio equipment or has radio equipment designed or manufactured; and
- (b) markets that radio equipment under that person's name or trade mark;
- “market surveillance authority” has the meaning set out in regulation 55 (designation of market surveillance authorities”) ;
- “national accreditation body” has the meaning set out in point 11 of Article 2 of RAMS (as amended from time to time) ;
- “notified body requirements” means the requirements set out in Schedule 8 (notified body requirements) ;
- “OFCOM” means the Office of Communications established under the Office of Communications Act 2002 ;
- “Official Journal” means the Official Journal of the European Union;
- “place on the market” means the first making available on the EU market of radio equipment, and related expressions must be construed accordingly;
- “put into service” means the first use of radio equipment in the EU by its end-user for the purposes for which it was intended, and related expressions must be construed accordingly;
- “radiodetermination” means the determination of the position, velocity and/or other characteristics of an object, or the obtaining of information relating to those parameters, by means of the propagation properties of radio waves;
- “radio communication” means communication by means of radio waves;
- “radio equipment” means—
- (a) an electrical or electronic product, which intentionally emits and/or receives radio waves for the purpose of radio communication and/or radiodetermination, or
- (b) an electrical or electronic product which must be completed with an accessory, such as antenna, so as to intentionally emit and/or receive radio waves for the purpose of...
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