EU CE-RED Tesing Lab from China,WIFI Products RED Certificate, Bluetooth speaker CE Tesing Standard, TWS CE-RED Tesing

EU CE-RED Tesing Lab from China,WIFI Products RED Certificate, Bluetooth speaker CE Tesing Standard, TWS CE-RED Tesing

5. Conformity Assessment of the Final Radio Product

5.1. Final Radio Product Introduction This section of the REDCA TGN deals with the responsibilities of the installer of the radio module into a host product; creating a final radio product (as per the definitions in section 3 of this TGN). An assessment must be considered of any combined equipment of radio module and host product; therefore the final radio product. The final radio product is effectively a new product. Section 3.3 of this TGN includes the criteria to identify when such a combination becomes a new final radio product. The manufacturer responsible for placing the final radio product on the market, is responsible for the overall compliance of the final radio product.

Reminder: CE + CE ≠ CE

5.2. Final Radio Product Assessment When installing a radio module into a host product, and if the host product was not used at the time of original assessment of the radio module, some assessment or testing will be required at the final radio product level. Many of the test cases used to show compliance with Article 3 of the RED are specific to the host environment. This applies to the EMC assessments, the product safety assessments, and any radio performance assessments which could be affected by a change to the relevant parameters.

In all cases, an assessment of the final radio product must be made to the requirements of Article 3 of the RED. In general, there is a desire to avoid unnecessarily repeating the radio performance assessment at the final radio product level, if compliance can be justified on the basis of technical analysis, test data and information provided by the radio module manufacturer to the final radio product manufacturer. However, if a meaningful and representative assessment of the radio performance requirements on the radio module were not performed, or are not available to the final radio product manufacturer; then a complete assessment of the final radio product is required. The information relating to the compliance of the radio module, and the responsibility of the final radio product manufacturer, should be made clear in the information provided by the radio module manufacturer concerning the installation and intended purpose of the radio module. Product safety according to Article 3.1a of the RED applies to the final radio product and a full assessment will be required at the final radio product level; which in most cases will mean full safety testing of the final radio product. Safety tests performed on the radio module do not provide confidence of safety compliance of the final radio product. See Annex A of this REDCA TGN for examples where the RF exposure assessment of the radio module may be applicable to the assessment of the final radio product. EMC according to Article 3.1b of the RED applies to the final radio product and a full assessment will be required at the final radio product level; which in most cases will mean full EMC testing of the final radio product. EMC tests performed on the radio module do not provide confidence of EMC compliance of the final radio product. Radio performance according to Article 3.2 of the RED applies to the final radio product and a full assessment will be required at the final radio product level; but that does not necessarily mean full radio testing must be performed on the final radio product. Some radio tests performed on the radio module may provide confidence of radio compliance of the final radio product. See Annex A of this REDCA TGN for examples where the radio performance assessment of the radio module may be applicable to the assessment of the final radio product. If the manufacturer of the final radio product does rely on radio performance test results/data from the radio module to demonstrate compliance of the final radio product to Article 3.2 of the RED, and if the radio module test data for Article 3.2 of the RED is not available or not supplied to the manufacturer of the final radio product; then the final radio product may need to be fully tested to provide the final radio product manufacturer with the information needed to state compliance with the RED. The decision to accept test data from the radio module, by the manufacturer of the final radio product, for applicability to the final radio product, is at the discretion and responsibility of the manufacturer of the final radio product and should form part of their RED risk assessment. Article 3.3 of the RED applies to the final radio product and a full assessment will be required at the final radio product level, for any applicable clauses of Article 3.3. The decision of whether to accept Article 3.3 compliance from the radio module for part of the assessment of the final radio product is on a case-by-case basis by the manufacturer of the final radio product. In addition to the assessment of the radio operation for Safety and EMC, the final radio product must be assessed for all other functions the device performs, also covered by RED Article 3.1. For example, a host product and final radio product may have other functions besides the operation of the radio module. In such cases, the RED Article 3.1 assessment will cover an assessment of the radio operation and also the other functions, which may likely be covered under different standards.