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Make sure you are in the REDwhen it comes to automotive radio equipment compliance


Craig Ormerod, senior manager at TÜV SÜD explores how to be fully automotive radio equipment compliant


As our levels of connectivity increase, and the automotive industry introduces ever more complex and convergent technologies, so too can the compliance process appear increasingly intricate and unpredictable. Economic operators associated with the


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automotive industry (vehicle and radio equipment manufacturers, importers, integrators of radio equipment and distributors) must comply with the European Union’s (EU) Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU (RED) and ensure that they have implemented their responsibilities accordingly. The RED is applicable to all electrical and electronic devices that intentionally emit and receive radio waves at frequencies below 3000GHz. Following Brexit, in the UK the RED has been


replaced by the Radio Equipment Regulations 2017. However, as EU Directives are already transposed into National Law, the UK already has a legal system in place that applies. This means that for the foreseeable future, the requirements of the UK Regulation will remain the same as those of the EU’s RED, so throughout this article we will refer to the RED.


Type approval Vehicle type approval is the confirmation that production samples of a type of vehicle, vehicle system, component or separate technical unit will meet specified performance standards. The obligations of


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he wireless world is having a significant impact on the automotive supply chain.


the various economic operators depend on whether the host vehicle is a type approved vehicle for use on a public highway or not. Road vehicles for use on the public highway


must be type approved before they can be registered and used. There is various European legislation presently in force, covering such automotive type approvals, for example the Whole Vehicle Framework Directive 2007/46/EC, as amended by EU 2015/166. Type approved vehicles include for


example, cars, trucks, trailers and caravans, and in Europe fall under the ‘e Marking’ EC/EU directives and regulations. The other separate vehicle regulation for ‘e marking’ are the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) regulations, which includes Regulation 10 for EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility). In the UK, the Vehicle Certification Agency is the designated UK Type Approval Authority for automotive products and also a designated Technical Service for type approval testing in the United Nations (UN) scheme. The application of the RED to vehicles is


partially addressed in the RED Guide to the Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU (Section 1.6.3.10 Radio equipment installed in vehicles), which is available from the European Commission Europa website. In the UK, the Radio Equipment Regulations 2017 are the UK's equivalent of the European Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU. A radio product for use in a type approved


vehicle needs to fully comply with the RED and all applicable European legislation for that radio, unless specifically falling within any exceptions of the RED. Thought should be given to the responsibility of which economic operator is making the radio product available and/or placing the product on the market, as this could be the type approved vehicle manufacturer which integrated the radio module. Vehicles that are not for use on the public


highway and are not subject to type approval will be subject to other applicable European legislation and directives, for example the RED and Machinery Directive. This effectively makes the entire vehicle fall under the scope of the RED when the vehicle is not under the scope of a type approval regime. This vehicle without type approval, but with an installed radio product, can then be defined as ‘combined equipment’ and there is separate RED guidance for this (for example ETSI Guide EG 203 367 V1.1.1). Vehicles that are not type approved for the public highway require CE marking against the applicable directives. Importantly, the radio product


manufacturer needs to consider the intended use and environmental conditions of the radio product in the host vehicle for all applicable RED essential requirements, as well as RED Article 3.1(a), which covers health and safety, and reasonably foreseeable conditions.


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