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ORGANIZATIONG/IT/SPEC/Q4/7
30 May 2002
(02-2962)
Committee of Participants on the Expansion
of Trade in Information Technology ProductsOriginal:  Spanish
SURVEY ON EMC/EMI
Replies to the Survey
Communication from El Salvador
The following communication, dated 22 May 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of El Salvador.
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1. (a) Does your government have mandatory technical requirements for
electromagnetic interference of Information Technology equipment?  If so, please
identify.
No.  The telecommunications legislation provides that operators must use equipment or build
their infrastructure in accordance with ITU standards or standards of any other organization
recognized by El Salvador.
(b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR 22?  If not, please explain the
current requirements.
No.  There is explicit harmonization, since in the event of discrepancy between the ITU
standard and CISPR 22, the ITU standard prevails.
2. (a) Does your government have mandatory technical requirements for
electromagnetic immunity of information technology equipment?  If so, please identify.
Those provided for in the ITU standards.
(b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR 24?  If not, please explain the
current requirements.
No further information is available on this standard.
3. (a) What conformity assessment procedure for electromagnetic compatibility
(EMC/EMI), which includes both interference and immunity, does your government
require for approval of information technology products?
In this case, only compliance with the ITU standard is required;  if type-approval is required,
it is enough for the applicant to submit certification from a recognized international
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(b) May suppliers perform these procedures (e.g. testing, declaration of conformity),
or must third parties perform these procedures?
No.  The procedure described in 2 must be followed for this purpose.
(c) What international guidelines or standards, if any, are those procedures based
on?  If not, what guidelines or standards are they based on?
Primarily the ITU standards.
4. Has your regulatory authority received an y complaint or had any problems regarding
the EMC/EMI aspects of the approved information technology products?  If yes, how frequent?
And please identify the nature of the complaint/problem.
No compliant of this kind has been received since the Telecommunications Law 1997 came
into force.
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