USA (FCC) - Equipment Authorization Standards Update

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the USA published a Report and Order on March 14, 2023, updating references to standards related to the FCC’s Equipment Authorization Program. This Report and Order includes four new and updated standards related to equipment testing to keep up with the pace of standard development.

The standards referenced in the Report and Order include:

• American National Standard Validation Methods for Radiated Emission Test Sites; 1 GHz to 18 GHz (ANSI C63.25.1-2018)

• American National Standard of Procedures for Compliance Testing of Unlicensed Wireless Devices (ANSI C63.10-2020)

• General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories (ISO/IEC 17025:2017(E))

• American National Standard for Methods of Measurement of Radio-Noise Emissions from Low-Voltage Electrical and Electronic Equipment in the Range of 9 kHz to 40 GHz, Amendment 1: Test Site Validation (ANSI C63.4a-2017)