COM(1989)289

Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Directive

PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE MEMBER STATES CONCERNING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL EQUIPMENT,INCLUDING THE MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF THEIR CONFORMITY

Stage: No longer in force
Transposition deadline: 6 Nov 1992
Procedure: Directive
Last activity: 23 May 1991

12 acts

Delegated and implementing acts beneath it

By status: 12 published.

Act	Kind	Status
97/751/EC: Commission Decision of 31 October 1997 on a common technical regulation for the attachment requirements for the terminal equipment interface for connection to 140 Mbit/s digital unstructured and structured leased lines (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/639/EC: Commission Decision of 19 September 1997 on a common technical regulation for the attachment requirements for the terminal equipment interface for connection to 34 Mbit/s digital unstructured and structured leased lines (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/545/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the general attachment requirements for Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) to connect to Packet Switched Public Data Networks (PSPDNs) offering CCITT Recommendation X.25 interfaces (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/544/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for terminal equipment to be connected to public circuit switched data networks and ONP leased circuits using a CCITT Recommendation X.21 type interface (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/525/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the attachment requirements for terminal equipment for digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) generic access profile (GAP) applications (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/524/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the telephony application requirements for digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) (edition 2) (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/523/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the general terminal attachment requirements for digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) (edition 2) (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/522/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the attachment requirements for the terminal equipment interface for connection to 64 kbit/s digital unrestricted ONP leased lines (Amendment 1) (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/521/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the attachment requirements for the terminal equipment interface for connection to 2 048 kbit/s digital structured ONP leased lines (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/520/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the attachment requirements for the terminal equipment interface for connection to 2 048 kbit/s digital unstructured ONP leased lines (Amendment 1) (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/487/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the general attachment requirements for terminal equipment to interface to Open Network Provision (ONP) four-wire analogue leased lines (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published
97/486/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the general attachment requirements for terminal equipment to interface to Open Network Provision (ONP) two-wire analogue leased lines (Text with EEA relevance)	Commission · Decision	Published

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Directive 91/263/EEC harmonizes rules for placing telecommunications terminal equipment on the market and mutually recognizes conformity assessment across member states. Member states had to transpose it by 6 November 1992, when Directive 86/361/EEC was repealed.

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