LPRA RESPONSES TO RECENT CONSULTATIONS : March 2021

LPRA RESPONSES TO RECENT CONSULTATIONS :

 

1: CRA OF QATAR : PROPOSED UPDATE TO THE SRD REGS


The LPRA was delighted to respond to this consultation, we thank the CRA of Qatar for inviting us to comment on the proposed update to the SRD regulations set out in the document, Class Licence for Short Range Devices – Version number (4). We applaud the access that Qatar allows for Short Range Device (SRD) applications. We also note how many regulations are based on CEPT recommendations, in particular, Rec 70-03. We are surprised, however, that no allowance is made for Tracking and Tracing and Data Acquisition applications up to 500mW  in the 870 MHz band, and RFID in the 915MHz band, given that this spectrum has been released for SRDs. Read the full response 
HERE

 

2: LPRA OPINION ON PREPARATIONS FOR ACTIVATION OF ARTICLES 3.3 RED

The LPRA understands the legitimate concern and anxiety of consumers attached to the ever increasing use of poorly secured networked IoT devices and the threat that they pose to society - both to personal data held on and processed by these devices, and the threat that such insecure devices pose to the wider Internet-using community in the form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Insecure devices such as these pose a socio- economic threat far beyond the cost of individual devices and it is right that industry and regulators work together to counter this growing menace. The LPRA has previously set out clearly its concerns about using the Radio Equipment Directive (RED) to address such deficiencies, however, particularly as new horizontal legislation is planned and the roll out of the Cyber Security Act (CSA) is well underway. Nevertheless, we understand the imperative to move as quickly as possible to address these concerns at a European level using legislation that is already in place. The LPRA has been closely involved with preparatory work by both CENELEC and ETSI in anticipating new standards that will be required to implement the soon-to-be-published Delegated Acts and is concerned that the magnitude of the task of generating such standards may have been underestimated. Our members’ current experience in  ..... Read the full response HERE