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Bureau Veritas ADT has performed First Offical WiMAX RPT test report

Bureau Veritas ADT issued first official WiMAX Forum Radiated Performance Test (RPT) report in the end of March, 2009. The RPT test report is fully compliant with WiMAX Forum RPT Specification v1.0 for certification profile M3500T-05 (MP12) in CRSL5.6.0. The test results without applicant information will submit to CWG for data collection purpose.

Bureau Veritas ADT has been approved as a WiMAX RPT Certification Lab from Dec. 2008 and recently we also become CTIA Authorized Testing Laboratory (CATL) for Over the Air Performance testing effective March 9th, 2009.

Radiated Performance Test (RPT) includes the transmit and receive performance aspects of WiMAX Subscriber and Mobile Stations in a radiated test configuration.These tests are used to evaluate the radiated performance of devices that utilize WiMAX air interface profile. top

New testing requirement - NCT will be active from May 1

NCT which stands for Network Conformance Testing is made by WiMAX Forum NWG (Network Working Group), NWIOT (Network IOT ) and ETSI experts. The NWIOT defines two main testing scopes, one is NCT and another one is IIOT (Infrastructure IOT). The purpose of NCT is to evaluate certain SS conformance above the MAC layer, for example IP connectivity across different operator network. WiMAX Forum has annonced NCT will be required for certification from CRSL version 6 (May 1). Bureau Veritas ADT has sited a testing equipment for NCT, and it is ready to offer NCT testing now. top

WiMAX Forum CWG Face to Face Taipei Meeting

- Date: March 31 - April 3, 2009
- Venue: Grand Hyatt Taipei Hotel
- Event website: http://www.wimaxforum.org/wimaxevents/certification-working-group-face-face-taipei
- Agenda: http://members.wimaxforum.org/apps/org/workgroup/cwg/document.php?document_id=41853

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UWB devices certification for Canada will be available on March 28, 2009

Industry Canada will publish the Radio Standards Specification (RSS) of the Devices Using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Technology. The standards will come into force as of Saturday March 28, 2009.

Standards
Radio Standards Specification 220, Issue 1: Devices Using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Technology, which establishes provisions for short-range devices using ultra-wideband (UWB) technology

Products
• vehicular radar devices
• communication (communication, measurement, location sensing, and tracking) devices
• radar imaging (ground penetrating radar (GPR), in-wall radar imaging, through-wall radar imaging, medical radar imaging, and radar surveillance) devices

Enforcement
• The Standards will come into force as of Saturday March 28, 2009.
• Certification to the above RSS may NOT be obtained before it is in force.
• There is no transition period. As of the release of these standards, the requirements apply.

Additional Information
The official Standards will be available on the Industry Canada website when they are published. (See http://ic.gc.ca/spectrum). top

BSMI makes a formal announcement that vehicle and portable GPS products will be subject to legal inspection as of July 1st, 2009

After a preliminary announcement that vehicle and portable GPS products will be subject to legal inspection as of July 1st, 2009 as well as a draft asked for public comments in January 2009, Taiwan BSMI released the formal inspection requirements on March 25, 2009. The requirements will take effect as of July 1st, 2009. Then, importers have to acquire a Certificate of Import Inspection or Certificate of the Registration of Product Certification issued by BSMI before declaring imports to the Customs; domestic vendors are required to acquire a Certificate of the Registration of Product Certification or Certificate of Domestic Inspection conducted by BSMI before shipping from the factory to sale.

Bureau Veritas ADT has full GPS product testing capacities and offers related inspection services from now on. Due to upcoming effective date, July 1st, vendors are reminded to finish the inspection and acquire the certificate as soon as possible in order to avoid launch delay. read more top

Seminar: 2009 PV cell module international testing standards

- Organizer: TALSA
- Executive Organizer: Bureau Veritas CPS Taoyuan Branch
- Co-organizer: Song-Gu, Vanung University, Bureau Veritas Certification Taiwan Co., Ltd., Qun-Yi
- Date: Thu. April 9th, 2009
- Time: 09:30-17:00
- Venue: Vanung University (Hong-Dao Building)
- Add.: No.1, Van-Nung Rd., Chung-Li, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan

Registration:
- Fee: Free
- Registrar: TALSA (Vanung University)
- Registration date: 09/03/24 - 09/04/07
- Registration via: fax/telephone/e-mail
- Registration line: +886-3-451-5811 ext.70001 (Dr. Cheng)
- Registration fax: +886-3-3-463-2902
- Contact person: Dr. Cheng
- Contact add.: No.1, Van-Nung Rd., Chung-Li, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan
- Registration e-mail: yccheng@msa.vnu.edu.tw

Agenda

Event website (Chinese) http://mis.vnu.edu.tw/coec/%E5%85%89%E6%BA%90%E5%AD%B8%E6%9C%83.html

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The 3rd and 4th Ecodesign Implementing Measures published in OJ on Mar 24, 2009

On 18th of March 2009, the European Commission adopted the ecodesign Regulation (EC) No 244/2009 regarding non-directional household lamps and Regulation (EC) No 245/2009 regarding fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast, for high intensity discharge lamps and for those ballasts and luminaries which are able to operate such lamps.

More information for your reference as link:

Ecodesign for non-directional household lamps
http://www.codde.fr/plaquette/Bulletin_HouseholdLighting-Published-iss3-240309_27032009_AQ.pdf

Ecodesign for fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast, for high intensity discharge lamps and for those ballasts and luminaries which are able to operate such lamps
http://www.codde.fr/plaquette/Bulletin_FluresscentlampsPublished-iss4-240309_27032009_AQ.pdf

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