Test Certification
1. Flow of test certification

2. Application procedures
You can select one of two test certification procedures described below.
  1. Application by submitting all of the equipment that you want to get certification together with required documents
  2. Application by submitting test reports issued by a test laboratory that fulfiles all necessary conditions which TELEC specified
3. Required documents
The following documents are required for the application.
Note:
TELEC accepts application documents written in either Japanese or English, but Japanese ones are preferable for the reduction of document examination time.
3-1 Application by submitting all of radio equipment
  1. Application form for test certification
  2. Type Specification forms including system diagram
  3. Manuals describing the operation and maintenance procedures for the specified radio equipment
3-2 Application by submitting test reports
  1. Application form for test certification
  2. Type Specification forms including system diagram
  3. Manuals describing the operation and maintenance procedures for the specified radio equipment
  4. "Notice of recognized test results" and "test reports" issued by a testing organization who satisfies the requirement specified by TELEC
  5. Photographs or drawings showing the component layout and the external appearance with the dimensions of applied equipment
*Application form:
Application Form (Test Certification) *Type Specification form
Type Specification form (No. 1)
Radio equipment to be used for land mobile station (excluding land mobile stations of PHS and DSRC), portable station, ship station, on-board communication station, meteorological radio station, 50 GHz band convenience radio station, radio station for testing FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, TDM or CDM cellular radio telephone, base station for PHS, radio station to relay communication between PHS base and land mobile stations, radio station for testing PHS radio equipment, base station for DSRC or etc.
Type Specification form (No. 2)
Radio equipment to be used for radionavigation service or radiolocation service
Type Specification form (No. 3)
Radio equipment to be used for radio station for citizen radio, cordless telephone, specified low-power radio, low-power security system, low-power data communication system or digital cordless telephone, land mobile station for PHS, land mobile station for DSRC or radio station for wireless card system In case of the application of radio equipment used for low-power data communication system, the following sheet must be attached to the Type Specifications.
Attached sheet for application of low-power data communication system
Type Specification form (No. 4)
Radio equipment to be used for amateur radio station or 150 MHz band, 400 MHz band, 27 MHz band or 900 MHz band convenience radio station
Type Specification form (No. 5)
Radio equipment to be used for earth station or portable mobile earth station
* Notice on Application

4. Examination and test
To see the outline of examination and test for certification, visit the following sites.
Examination and Test
Test Items
Test Conditions
Number of Sampling Units
5. Notification of the result
  1. TELEC issues a certificate to the applicant whose equipment has successfully passed the certification test. The number of certificate is one for each unit of equipment.
  2. If it is found that applied equipment does not conform with the technical regulations, TELEC notifies the applicant by sending notification of non-conformity.
  3. In principle notification of test certification will be made within 7 days after reception of application. The days exclude those for correction of application documents and holidays.
6DMarking of certification
A certification label must be affixed to an easily recognizable place on the certified equipment. For the test certification, TELEC issues certification label to the applicant.
Marking of test certification
7DCharges
Visit the following site to see the charges for test certification.
Charges
8. Validity of certification
Certificate becomes invalid when certified equipment is changed from the descriptions or the specifications submitted to TELEC at the time of application, or when it does not conform to the technical regulations. In such case, new application is necessary if you want to keep the certification.
9 Revocation of certification
When TELEC gets a fact that an applicant has received a certificate by illegal means or radio equipment which construction type has been certified does not conform to the technical standard, TELEC reports the fact to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. In such cases, the certification becomes invalid and the applicant is required to return the certificate.
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