ISED Publishes RSS-Gen Issue 6 and RSS-310 Issue 6

Following the public consultation held in March, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has officially issued RSS-Gen, Issue 6 and RSS-310, Issue 6.

Overview

• RSS-Gen, Issue 6 (general requirements for radio apparatus) changes include:

  • Added a list of abbreviations and updated definitions

  • Added clarifications related to equipment modifications

  • Relocated stand-alone receivers to RSS-310, Section 6.1

  • Streamlined labelling, including permitted QR code labelling, label placement in the user manual or packaging for very small devices, and clarified electronic labelling requirements

  • Added guidelines for radiated emission measurements below 30 MHz

  • Increased the frequency range for unwanted emissions measurements to 750 GHz

    
    

• RSS-310, Issue 6 (licence-exempt radio apparatus, Category II equipment) changes include:

  
  

  • Removed the test report section, which is now specified in RSS-Gen

  • Simplified the labelling and user manual sections by removing duplicate requirements

  • Added requirements for stand-alone receivers and passive RFID tags

  • Replaced the full exclusions for transmitters with input power ≤ 6 nW, and for transmitters operating below 9 kHz, with partial exemptions from labelling, user manual, and test report requirements only

View RSS-Gen here and RSS-310 here.

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