The Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Amendment of the Amendment and Extension Regulations

4.  The Amendment and Extension Regulations are hereby amended as follows:—

(a) in the headpiece to regulation 3, for “regulation 6(a)” there shall be substituted “regulation 7(a)”;

(b) in regulation 8(3), for the words “regulation 12 and Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations as substituted by regulation 7 above” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 10 of the principal Regulations as substituted by regulation 7 above, or regulation 12 of those Regulations and Schedule 2 to those Regulations as so substituted”;

(c) in regulation 10(a)(i)(bb), there shall be inserted after the definition of “Community internal production control procedure” the following definition:—

““declaration of conformity” means a written declaration that receive-only equipment satisfies the relevant requirements of the TTE Directive and the Satellite Earth Station Equipment Directive drawn up pursuant to the Community internal production control procedure by a manufacturer or his authorized representative where the manufacturer has chosen pursuant to Article 9 or 10 of the latter Directive to comply with the conformity assessment requirements pursuant to that procedure;”;

(d) for regulation 10(e) there shall be substituted the following—

“(e) regulation 12 shall (in addition to regulations 7 to 11 and Parts III, IV and IVA) have effect in relation to satellite earth station equipment which is capable of terrestrial connection to the public telecommunications network but which is not intended for such connection as if it were connection-capable equipment or radio connection-capable equipment as the case may require, but as if paragraph (4) were omitted;”

(e) after regulation 10(e), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(ee) in regulation 73(2) (as substituted by regulation 3(d) of the Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 1995 in relation to applicable terminal equipment in a case where the responsible person elects to affix the CE marking)—”

(a) in the headpiece, for the words “EC declaration of conformity to type or an EC declaration of conformity” there were substituted the words “EC declaration of conformity to type, EC declaration of conformity or declaration of conformity”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for “36 and 48” there were substituted “36, 48 and 49D”; and

(f) in the Schedule, in the provisions inserted into the principal Regulations as they have effect in relation to satellite earth station equipment—

(i) in regulation 49B(2), for the word “or” there shall be substituted the word “nor”;

(ii) in the fourth indent of regulation 49C(2), for the words “this Directive” there shall be substituted the words “that Directive”; and

(iii) for regulation 49D there shall be substituted the following—

“Declaration of conformity

49D.   The manufacturer or his authorized representative shall—

(a) make the declaration of conformity (which shall, where it is drawn up in the United Kingdom, be in English) for equipment in respect of which the Community internal production control procedure has been applied and which complies with the essential requirements; and

(b) keep a copy of the declaration with the technical documentation.”.