China MIIT announcement on Certain Issues Concerning the Type Approval of Radio Transmission Equipment

China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has published a new regulation No. 39/2019 on Oct. 12, 2019, summary of contents as below: 

1.  There are 6 situations where an applicant is allowed to apply changes/modification on a SRRC certificate: 

• The information of license holder has changed. 
• The information of factory has changed. 
• Te factory's quality system has changed (e.g. production capacity, technical force, quality assurance system, production line and origin).
• Components of certified products (RF signal processing chip, power gain related device, filter, baseband chip, RF transceiver related device, RF power supply and other management related devices, switching devices, duplexers, antenna related devices, clock related devices, etc.). If the change occurs, the applicant submits the corresponding change materials, the laboratory self-test report or the third-party test report of the changed product, and the application for the change of the commitment materials consistent with the RF parameters in the test report based on the modification application. 
• After obtaining the certificate, the model changes before it is actually put into production and sale. 
• Changes in product-related information due to changes in national laws and regulations or radio management policies.

2.  Under previous regulation No. 1/2014, it mentioned that SRRC certified module (with Limited-module approval) can be embedded in information technology equipment and household appliances equipment, while no detailed product listed. Now the list was defined, see Annex 2 file in attachment.  

3. Products can apply for 'family approval', defined below: 

• Product use and function are exactly the same. 
• The appearance of the product is roughly the same (such as color changes, small changes in product size, etc., which do not affect the RF performance of the product) 
• The embedded WLAN modules (including Bluetooth) and public mobile communication (including NB-IoT, eMTC), have been SRRC certified.  

4. The State Radio Administration will intensify its supervision and inspection of relevant radio transmitting equipment.