Industry Canada announces changes in procedure for declaration of conformity and certification of terminal equipment

Industry Canada has recently released a notice to all terminal equipment certificate holders, laboratories, and purchasing departments, announcing that as of January 19, 2002, the procedure for declaration of conformity and certification of terminal equipment (DC-01) is the ONLY procedure allowed for the marketing of terminal equipment in Canada.

For equipment certified prior to January 19, 2002 Industry Canada will still allow certification labels to be applied until January 1, 2003, when self-marking will be mandatory and Industry Canada will cease label production.

To assist manufacturers in gaining conformity and registration of terminal equipment (DC-01), Industry Canada has set up detailed information which is available on their website at http://spectrum.ic.gc.ca/~cert/.

The following are some helpful links to assist manufacturers in their conformity efforts:

• Industry Canada provides an informational brochure providing a general explanation of the Declaration of Conformity available as a PDF download.
• Industry Canada provides a downloadable PDF file outlining the Procedure for Declaration of Conformity and Registration of Terminal Equipment (DC-01)
• Industry Canada provides a downloadable PDF file outlining the Self-Marking of the Certification/Registration Number on Terminal Equipment - Application Procedure and Agreement
• Industry Canada also allows visitors to receive updates from the Telecommunication Engineering & Certification Summit. Notification allows users to stay abreast of further developments on self-marking and other areas relating to Terminal Equipment. To register, visit http://www.scc.ca/forum98/tapac/dispatch.cgi. Registration will allow you to request automatic e-mail notifications on one or many discussion groups. Two groups of particular interest are the TAPAC Bulletin, providing information on changes to the procedures or specifications of TAPAC (e.g., self-marking) and the Service Provider Industry Advisories discussion groups which will inform you know when a new telephone company interface disclosure is published.