L’Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Télécommunications du Congo (ARPTC) published the new decision 065/ARPTC/CLG/2019 with a focus on the type approval and certification of R&TTE. The most important changes in this decision can be summarized as follows:

Labeling: All approved devices must be labelled with an irremovable label and must include the following details:

• Approval date and approval number
• Model name and serial number
• Identification of the manufacturer or supplier

Validity: The validity of the type approvals are based on the classification of the device.

• Equipment connected to telecommunications networks and radio transmitters (5 years)
• Landline and mobile phones. Low power equipment (2 years)
• All other radio equipment not included in the first two categories (2 years)
• Receivers, reception decoders (2 years)
• Antennas (5 years)
• All other equipment not listed in categories 1-5 (2 years)