Electronic Communications Networks and Services (General)

L.N. 151 of 2020

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (REGULATION) ACT

(CAP. 399)

Electronic Communications Networks and Services (General)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 34 and 47 of

the Electronic Communications (Regulation) Act, the Minister

responsible for Communications, after consultation with the Malta

Communications Authority, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is Electronic Communications Citation.

Networks and Services (General) (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 and

these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Electronic Communications Networks and Services (General) S.L. 399.28.

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 3 of the principal Amends

regulations, immediately after the definition "the Authority" there regulation

the principal

shall be added the following new definition

regulations.

" "category M vehicles" means the same as the

meaning assigned to it in article 2 of the Motor Vehicles

Registration and Licensing Act;".

Immediately after regulation 85 of the principal Adds new

regulation 85A

regulations, there shall be added the following new regulation

to the principal

regulations.

" Interoperability of

85A. (1) Any car radio receiver integrated in a

car radio receivers.

new vehicle of category M which is made available on

the market for sale or rent in Malta as from 21

December 2020 shall comprise a receiver capable of

receiving and reproducing at least radio services

provided by digital terrestrial radio broadcasting of type

DAB+

Provided that receivers which are in

accordance with harmonised standards the references of

which have been published in the Official Journal of the

European Union or with parts thereof shall be

considered to comply with that requirement covered by

those standards or parts thereof.

(2) The Authority shall take such measures as it

may consider appropriate in accordance with its powers

at law to ensure conformity with the provisions of this

regulation.

(3)

The Authority may adopt measures to

ensure the interoperability of other consumer radio

receivers, while limiting the impact on the market for

low-value radio broadcast receivers and ensuring that

such measures are not applied to products where a radio

receiver is purely ancillary, such as smart-phones, and

to equipment used by radio amateurs.".

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