SLOVAK REPUBLIC: STN EN 55022 -- LIMITS AND METHODS OF MEASUREMENT OF RADIO DISTURBANCE CHARACTERISTIC OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.97.189. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: SLOVAK REPUBLIC. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Slovak Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Information technology equipment. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: STN EN 55022 -- Limits and Methods of Measurement of Radio Disturbance Characteristic of Information Technology Equipment (62 pages, available in Slovak). 6. Description of content: Procedures are given for the measurement of the levels of spurious signals generated by the ITE and limits are specified for the frequency range 9 kHz to 400 GHz for both Class A and Class B equipment. No measurements need to be performed at frequencies where no limits are specified. 7. Objective and rationale: The intention of this Standard is to establish uniform requirements for the radio disturbance level of the equipment contained in the scope, to fix limits of disturbance, to describe methods of measurements and to standardize operating conditions and interpretation of results. The adoption of this Standard as a compulsory regulation will facilitate the international trade since the Standard is identical with the internationally recognized and Europe-wide used Standard IEC/CISPR 22 and CENELEC/EN 55022. Obsolete and non-compatible national standards are replaced by this Standard. The adoption of CENELEC Standard in the form of compulsory regulation is only a temporary solution based on the Act. No. 142/1991 on Slovak Technical Standards (amended and supplemented by the Act No. 632/1992 and Act No. 143/1995. In the course of approximation of the Slovak laws to the EU legislation this Act will be brought in line with the EU new approach and global approach principles, and via the adoption of relevant regulations the status of this CENELEC Standard will be converted in the Slovak Republic into the voluntary one. 8. Relevant documents: STN 34-2860 -- Electric engineering regulations. Suppression of radio inference caused by electric motors, apparatus and appliances. STN 34-2895 -- Electric engineering regulations. Suppression of radio interference caused by wire communication apparatus. STN EN 55022 idt EN 55022. 9. Proposed date of adoption: Not listed; Proposed date of entry into force: Not listed. 10. Final date for comments: 30 June 1997. 11. Text available from: National enquiry point. (0132)

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