SRD Regulations and indicative list of equipment subclasses
This page provides information on Short Range Devices (SRD) such as the applicable regulations in Europe and the relevant activities within the ECC. It also contains the indicative list of equipment sub-classes in accordance with the Radio Equipment Directive.
Short Range Devices (SRD) have offered for many years a flourishing range of applications in frequency bands which have been subject to ongoing harmonisation within CEPT.
Responding to the needs of short range devices including appropriate spectrum access for the IoT/M2M is one of the strategic topics for the period 2020-2025 identified by the ECC in its strategic plan.
This page contains information on:
1 Short Range Device Regulations
Implementation of Short Range Devices spectrum regulations
- Implementation status within the EU/EEA-EFTA countries (Appendix 1);
- Implementation status within the CEPT countries not being EU/EEA-EFTA (Appendix 1);
- National restrictions within the CEPT countries (Appendix 3).
European Commission regulation on SRDs
European Commission has adopted a Decision on 9 November 2006 on "harmonisation of the radio spectrum for use by Short Range Devices (Decision 2006/771/EC)". The Decision has an annex which is updated annually in order to respond to the technological and market developments in the area of Short Range Devices." Last update:The European Commission has adopted the Decision (EU) 2022/180 on 8 February 2022 amending the EC Decision for SRD.
In addition, Decision (EU) 2022/172 has been published on 07 February 2022 on the harmonisation of radio spectrum for use by Short Range Devices within the 874-876 and 915-921 MHz frequency bands. CEPT administrations should refrain from introducing new SRD uses in 874.4-876/919.4-921 MHz. It is recognised that existing implementations in these frequency ranges in some CEPT countries will continue to exist in these frequency ranges. These existing implementations are not impacted by Article 3(4) of the new EC Decision EC Decision 2018/1538/EU and that it is expected that these implementations will likely remain in force for a considerable time in several countries.
CEPT administrations that have not yet implemented the provisions aligned with EC Decision (EU) 2022/172 are encouraged to consider national alignments. The set of technical requirements for the protection of radio services as in the new EC Decision (EU) 2022/172 is recommended for new national implementations. This set of usage conditions is only available for SRD in data networks. All devices within the data network shall be under the control of network access points. A network access point in a data network is a fixed terrestrial short-range device that acts as a connection point for the other Short Range Devices in the data network to service platforms located outside of that data network. The term data network refers to several SRD, including the network access point, as network components and to the wireless connections between them. National implementations may limit usage of these entries such that installation and operation are performed only by professional users and may consider individual authorisation, e.g. to administer geographical sharing and/or the application of mitigation techniques to ensure protection of radio services.
National rules, such as local coordination, may also be needed in order to avoid interference to radio services operating in the adjacent bands, for example due to intermodulation or blocking.
CEPT administrations can implement frequencies down to the lower band edges at 870 MHz and 915 MHz, if they have an opportunity to do (e.g. spectrum not used by radio services needing protection such as defense use or governmental use) within all or parts of 870-874.4 MHz and 915-919.4 MHz. The frequency range 917.4-919.4 MHz is the harmonised minimum core band according to EC Decision (EU) 2022/172.
The regulatory provisions for ultra-wideband applications are also included in ERC Recommendation 70-03 and they are also covered in the applicable Commission Decision (EU) 2019/785 of 14 May 2019 on the harmonisation of radio spectrum for equipment using ultra-wideband technology in the Union and repealing Decision 2007/131/EC.
2 ECC activities on Short Range Devices
Within the ECC, two Project Teams are mainly devoted to activities related to SRDs.
The Frequency Management Short Range Devices Maintenance Group (SRD/MG) is responsible for the development and update of regulations applicable for SRDs (e.g. ERC Recommendation 70-03) (see here for further details).
The latest published CEPT Report under the permanent mandate for the update of the EC regulation on SRDs is CEPT Report 77, March 2019. A further revision is currently under development relating to the 9th update of the SRD Decision 2006/771/ec.
The Spectrum Engineering Project Team SE24 is responsible for compatibility studies related to Short Range Devices (SRD). Additional information on SE24 activities is available here.
3 SRD Regulations and indicative list of equipment subclasses in accordance with the Radio Equipment Directive (2014/53/EU)
See EFIS database: Class 1 equipment subclasses
Disclaimer: ECO has no responsibility for the content of subclasses published in this page. The list has been developed by the TCAM Committee of the European Commission. All queries on the list and its content should be made to the European Commission.
Related links:
R&TTE Directive (Archive information);
RE Directive;
R&TTE Guide (Archive information);
RED Compliance Association;
National Frequency Tables.
Class 1 equipment classes can also be searched for in EFIS under documents by selecting frequency range and/or application term.
The Radio Equipment Directive (RED) 2014/53/EU: OJ L153 22 May 2014 replaced the Radio & Telecommunication Terminal Equipment Directive (R&TTE Directive) 1999/5/EC, repealed with effect from 13 June 2016. The RE Directive must be applied from 13 June 2016.
The link to the webpage of the European Commission for the Radio Equipment Directive reference documents is here.
4 Additional information on SRDs
During the last years, the ECC has published within its Newsletters various articles related to SRDs:
The full information about the Short Range Device Regulation in Europe (EC, CEPT, National implementations) is available in
here in the EFIS database.
Updated: 08 February 2023, 10:24
