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Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU

Directive 2014/53/EU "establishes a regulatory framework for the making available on the market and putting into service in the Union of radio equipment" (Article 1(1)). Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 supplements it "with regard to the application of the essential requirements referred to in Article 3(3), points (d), (e) and (f)" of the Directive (its title).

Read the articles Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30: "It shall apply from 1 August 2025." (Article 3, as replaced by Article 1 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2444). Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/339, Article 1: "Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 is repealed with effect from 11 December 2027."

1 Aug 2025 Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 applies (Art. 3, as replaced by Art. 1 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2444)

13 Jun 2016 Member States apply their measures under the Directive (Art. 49(1)); Directive 1999/5/EC repealed with effect from that date (Art. 50)

52 articles and 8 annexes in Directive 2014/53/EU as published in 2014

What Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 is about

Article 3(3) of Directive 2014/53/EU: "Radio equipment within certain categories or classes shall be so constructed that it complies with the following essential requirements", points (a) to (i). The Commission "shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 44 specifying which categories or classes of radio equipment are concerned by each of the requirements". Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 is such an act for points (d), (e) and (f), quoted below; its preamble cites "Article 3(3), the second subparagraph, in conjunction with Article 3(3), first subparagraph, points (d), (e) and (f)". Its Article 1 names the radio equipment for each point, its Article 2 sets the derogations, and its Article 3, as replaced by Article 1 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2444, reads: "It shall apply from 1 August 2025."

Article 3(3), point (d): "radio equipment does not harm the network or its functioning nor misuse network resources, thereby causing an unacceptable degradation of service"

Article 3(3), point (e): "radio equipment incorporates safeguards to ensure that the personal data and privacy of the user and of the subscriber are protected"

Article 3(3), point (f): "radio equipment supports certain features ensuring protection from fraud"

Article 1(1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30: point (d) "shall apply to any radio equipment that can communicate itself over the internet, whether it communicates directly or via any other equipment (‘internet-connected radio equipment’)"

The acts, article by article

Each as published in the Official Journal of the European Union, on one page

Directive 2014/53/EU

52 articles and 8 annexes, as published in OJ L 153, 22.5.2014, p. 62 (CELEX 32014L0053); not consolidated

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30

Commission Delegated Regulation of 29 October 2021, OJ L 7, 12.1.2022, p. 6 (CELEX 32022R0030); 3 articles

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2444

Commission Delegated Regulation of 20 July 2023, OJ L, 2023/2444, 27.10.2023 (CELEX 32023R2444); its Article 1 amends Article 3 and its Article 2 corrects Article 1(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30

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Which of points (d), (e) and (f) apply to your radio equipment
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