On April 15, 2025, the European Commission presented a draft amendment to Regulation (EU) 2023/1670, which specifies ecodesign requirements for smartphones, feature phones, cordless phones and tablets.

Annex II of Regulation (EU) 2023/1670 specifies the requirements for the supply and delivery of spare parts and the dismantling procedure. There was one error in the maximum delivery time that affected all phones and tablets, as well as an error in the requirements section for replacing the display components. To ensure clarity and consistency, it is proposed that the "Disassembly Requirements" and "Availability of Spare Parts" in Sections 1.1(3) and (5) of Part A-D of Annex II be revised as follows:

• With regard to the maximum delivery time for spare parts, this draft aims to clarify that the delivery requirement of 10 working days now applies to all remaining years, not just the last two years.
• "Display Components" has been added as an exception to the replacement requirement (Annex II A, B and D, Section 1.1, point (5)(b)). This change means that non-specialists cannot replace the display components.

If adopted, this amendment will enter into force on the twentieth day after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. The provisions of this Regulation shall apply from 20 June 2025, in line with the date of application of Regulation (EU) 2023/1670.

Click on the link to view the original public consultation until 14 June 2025.

On 13 April 2025, Iraq's Communications and Media Commission (CMC) launched a public consultation on draft regulations for short-range wireless devices (SRDs) and ultra-wideband (UWB). The SRD equipment regulation contains several series of wireless devices, which refers to the corresponding EU technical standards without version. For Wi-Fi 6e, the standard is EN 303 687 , the frequency band is 5925-6425MHz, the power limit is 200mW, and it is only for indoor use.

Click this link to view the original public consultation, the comment period is until 13 May 2025.

On April 12, 2025, the Serbian Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (RATEL) announced that the amendments made to the radio band allocation plan have entered into force.

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On October 2, 2024, Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Agency (IFETEL) approved modifications to the the guidelines for the use of the type approval guide and the IFT seal. The revised guidelines for the use of the IFT sealwere originally scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2025. IFETEL launched a public consultation on 11 April 2025 on the effective date and scope of the revised guidelines for the use of the IFT seal, postponing the original effective date from 1 July 2025 to 1 July 2027.

Click this link to view the original public consultation and the comment period is until 2 May 2025.

On April 7, 2025, India's National Communications Security Centre (NCCS) issued a notice announcing that Optical Network Terminal (ONT) and Optical Line Terminal (OLT) products will be included in the Voluntary Security Certification (VSC) regime with an extension until August 31, 2025. As of September 1, 2025, ONT and OLT products must be certified under the ComSec scheme by mandatory ITSAR. This notice supersedes the notice dated December 6, 2024, which allows for voluntary certification to be valid until March 31, 2025.

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On April 3, 2025, Brazil's National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ANATEL) approved the "Regulatory Simplification Project", which will carry out major reforms in the telecommunications sector. The main changes are as follows:

• Consolidation of regulatory acts into a single framework, such as the approval of the General Telecommunication Services Regulation (RGST) and the Regulatory Experimental Environment Regulation;
• updating the Temporary Regulations on the Use of Radio Frequencies and adjusting internal regulations;
• repeal outdated regulations, update definitions, and improve rules for public interest services and restrictive services;
• Introduce a unified glossary to improve the comprehensibility and clarity of regulations.

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On April 3, 2025, Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) solicited public comments on the draft report of the Committee on Next-Generation Mobile Communications Systems on the technical requirements for 5G mobile communication systems (26 GHz band/40 GHz band).

Click on the link to view the original public consultation, and the comment period is until May 7 2025.

On April 2, 2025, Mexico government published IFT-017-2023 errata updating the Video Bandwidth (VBW) entry for Section 5.7.2. The minimum channel bandwidth required for the 5725 MHz – 5850 MHz band is "≥ 3 x RBW".

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On March 31, 2025, the new Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) of Vietnam, which was formed by the merger of the former Ministry of Communications and Media (MIC) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), issued an announcement numbered 01/2025/TT-BKHCN amending the announcement 08/2021/TT-BTTTT issued on October 14, 2021. The revision expands the original 326.5kHz-340kHz wireless charging frequency band to 315kHz-400kHz, and adds and updates more technical requirements related to WLAN in the 6GHz frequency band.

The effective date of the announcement is May 15, 2025.

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On 28 March 2025, South Africa's Independent Communications Authority (ICASA) launched a public consultation on dynamic spectrum access and opportunistic spectrum management for the innovative spectrum frequency ranges 3800-4200 MHz and 5925-6425 MHz. The public consultation referred to 3800-4200 MHz as ISFR 1 and 5925-6425 MHz as ISFR 2. For each frequency band, the equipment deployment height, EIRP and power spectral density (PSD) limit requirements are given for different environments (indoor, urban outdoor, rural outdoor).

Click this link to view the original public consultation, and the comment period is until 30 May 2025.