Product approval, certification services - Brazil

Telecoms and radio

TRaC offers a type approval and project management service for a wide range of telecoms equipment to ensure that products intended for sale or use in Brazil meets all of the necessary regulatory and compliance requirements for Agencia Nacional de Telecommunications (Anatel).

Types of Equipment	Approval Authority
Telecommunication line terminal equipment (TLTE) Radio Frequency (RF) equipment	Anatel

Types of Equipment

TLTE and RF Type Approval is applicable but not necessarily limited to, data and text processing equipment, data preparation equipment, data terminal equipment, data circuit terminating equipment (for example, modems), automatic telephone answering machines, facsimile transceivers, call restriction devices, cordless telephones, digital and analogue feature telephones, lightning protection devices, line monitoring equipment and speech recorders.

Type Approval Requirements

All equipment testing is carried out in-country. All foreign manufacturers who want to obtain Brazilian type approval of RF and TLTE products must appoint a Brazilian citizen or company to apply for and hold approval. All applicants must be registered on the local Trade Register as being professionally involved with the marketing of electronics or telecommunications equipment.

Anatel divides products into the following three categories according to how product certification is maintained.

Category	Equipment Type	Maintenance
Category I	Analog products and wireless phones	Certificates must be maintained every year. This may include retesting for safety and providing evidence that the product is still manufactured in exactly the same way as when it was first approved.
Category II	WIFI radios	Certificates maintained every two years.
Category III	Data equipment, routers, etc	Certificates only maintained if there is a change in standards in Brazil.

Project Management for Anatel Approvals

For Anatel approvals, the process that TRaC can project manage includes the following services:

Organisation of despatch of the samples to prevent delays at Customs
Management of the testing process till type approval is complete
Completion of all paperwork including application forms, declarations and letters of authority to be sent to Anatel in Brazil
Liaison with local offices and distributors in Brazil
Submission of the approval applications to Anatel
Making payment for the certification on your behalf
Ongoing liaison with Anatel until type approval is granted