scope:

The present document applies to the following radio equipment:

• Transmitters, receivers and transceivers fitted with external antenna connectors, used as coast stations, operating in the VHF band of the maritime mobile service as defined in the Radio Regulations, Appendix S18 [5] and utilizing class of emission G3E, and where relevant G2B for DSC signalling.

• This includes:

- equipment operating under local or remote control;

- equipment operating on 25 kHz channel spacing;

- equipment capable of analogue speech, Digital Selective Calling (DSC), or both;

- equipment operating in Simplex, Semi-Duplex (Half Duplex) and Duplex modes;

- equipment which may consist of more than one unit;

- equipment which may be single-channel or multi-channel;

- equipment operating on shared radio sites;

- equipment operating in isolation from other radio equipment.

The present document is intended to cover the provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC [i] (R&TTE Directive) article 3.2, which states that "... radio equipment shall be so constructed that it effectively uses the spectrum allocated to terrestrial/space radio communications and orbital resources so as to avoid h a d interference".

In addition to the present document, other ENS that speciSl technical requirements in respect of essential requirements under other parts of article 3 of the R&TTE Directive [i] will apply to equipment within the scope of the present document.

NOTE: A list of such ENs is included on the web site http://www.newapproach.org.