This summer the climate crisis has shown clear signs, lately with extreme heatwaves and wildfires in many places in the world and extreme rainfall in other places. Research has for a long time established as a fact that the cause an unnatural increase of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. The big questions now are how and to which extent it can be stopped or preferably reversed. Replacing use of fossil fuel by more electrification is seen as a major part of the solution. This, however, will require amounts of metals and different minerals which are beyond what can be obtained by traditional means/solutions, as further considered in the third article below.
On 20 July, the EU Commission adopted the Delegated Regulation (C(2023)4823) which postpones the Radio Equipment Directive (RED) Delegated Regulation on cybersecurity etc until 1 August 2025.
These requirements were originally planned applicable from 1 August 2024.
The Indian telecom authority TEC has by a recent Amendment Notification announced the extension of Phase III & IV of the mandatory testing & certification scheme for telecom equipment (MTCTE)
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Nemko India’s scope as a TEC-designated Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) has been expanded to include interface- and functional testing.
A world with 8 billion people, where all are striving for a better standard of living, have to make drastic changes soon in order to control the use of carbon.
Amongst the many necessary measures, is more use of other minerals than those having fueled the exponential technical development since the industrial revolution, i.e. during the past 200-300 years.
Vietnam implements new regulations for telecom equipment
Vietnam’s Ministry of Information & Communications (MIC) has by Circular No. 04/2023/TT-BTTTT, announced im-plementation of “Regulations on the list of potentially unsafe products and goods under the management responsi-bility of the Ministry of Information & Communications"
Recently, the mid-year meetings of the internationalIEC-CAB(Conformity Assessment Board) and IEC-SMB (Standardization Management Board) took as usual place in Geneva, Switzer-land, hosted by theIEC Central Office , Amongst the points of the agendas for both Boards were, respectively, conformity assessment services and standardization.
On 19 July there was an event in Korea to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the KOLAS accreditation system and also the World Accreditation Day.
Hosted by the governmental Korean Agency for Technology & Standards (KATS), the event was held to encourage related organizations that contributed to the establishment and development of the accreditation system and to declare its vision.
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