Tunis, march 21, 2014
CERT LABs
Activities karim.wakil@cert.mincom.tn kais.siala@cert.mincom.tn

Context
The Association Agreement between Tunisia and the European Union:
– Aims to establish a free trade area between
Tunisia and the EU.
– Enter into action after the signing of the
Agreements on Conformity Assessment and
Acceptance of industrial products (ACAA).

ACAA signing
The signing of mutual recognition requires:
• The use by Tunisia of technical rules of the
European Community relating to the quality of industrial products.
• The establishment of a regulatory framework,
• The establishment of a system of conformity assessment:
– Measurement laboratories (EMC, LVD, etc.)
– Metrology labs,
– Etc ...
• Creating structures for market surveillance.

Objectives
This project aims to:
• Improve the competitiveness of Tunisian industry,
• Protect the Tunisian consumer,
• Protect the electromagnetic environment,
• Apply quality systems as national requirement and in export operations of industrial products,

RF transmitters
ESD
• External Impacts
• Internal Impacts
• Human Impacts
Mobile phones
Lightening
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Products Concerned by
EMC Tests
ManufacturerTender books
Radio & Telecom equipments
Aerospace components
Automotive components
Medical equipments
Equipments
Information Technology
Equipments (ITE)
Houshold equipments
Consumer
Equipment
Laboratory equipments
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Activity of the laboratory
• Industry support (pre / full compliance)
– Compliance verification before marketing
– Technical advice, training and expertise
– Technical assistance
– Engineering
– Professional training
• Market control:
– CERT is a governmental entity
– Implementation of Legal and administrative structures of market control (in progress)
– Baseline 10 meters distance of measures
– accreditation required

• Directives are text of laws
• Prescribe essential requirements (Health, safety, EMC, etc)
• Manufacturer self declaration
• CE label as indication of compliance
How to access the market?

Free mouvement of goods
MRA
MRA
Free mouvement of goods
Free mouvement of goods
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• European directives
– Essential requirements = minimum requirements
• For R&TTE equipments, we can add
– Performance testing
– Interoperability testing
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Terminal access requirements have been removed: fixed network terminal equipment therefore only needs to comply with
 Health and Safety requirements:
– Health : as per EMF recommandation 1999/519/CE
– Safety : as per Directive 2006/95/CE (LVD) but with the lower limit removed. (Article 3.1)
 EMC requirements: as per Directive 2004/108/CE (Article 3.1)
 Radio equipment needs to effectively use the spectrum and not cause harmful interference. (Article 3.2)
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Applied standards
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Radio : EN 300 328 + ERC 70-03 recommandation
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EMC : EN 301 489-17 & EN 301 489-01
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Safety : EN 60950
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Health : EN 50364
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Electromagnetic wave
Reflectivity
Metal
Anechoic rooms
Absorber
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EMC (3)
Conducted Radiated
Emission
Receiver
Antenna
Receiver
LISN Or clamp
Immunity
CDN
A Amplifier
G
*EUT = Equipement Under Test
Generator
EUT*
Antenna
Generator
Amplifierr
A G
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• Semi-anechoic chamber for 10 m measures
• Turntable 5 m, 10 Tons
• Sliding door 4x4 m

• Mode stirred reverberation chamber EOLE 200

Annex Faraday rooms
• Conducted measures rooms
• Control rooms
• Loading room
• Amplifier rooms

• Full compliant CISPR 16 EMI receivers
• Spectrum analysers (up to 44 GHz)
• Power amplifiers (up to 1 kW)
• ESD generators (up to 30 kV)
• Surge/Burst generators (up to 4 kV)
• Flicker/Haronics analyser
• Antennas, RF generators, Wattmeters,...
• ISO test workbench
• EMC softwares
• ...

Electrical safety laboratory
Climatic chambers and
Ovens
Ball pressure test apparatus
Power supplies Safety tester
Test fingers and probes
Needle Flame Test
Motor drive
for spray apparatus
Dust chamber

Workshop conformance and interoperability“C&I”
November 2012
Training Session on conformance and interoperability “C&I”
November 2012 - African and Arab regions
Training Session on conformance and interoperability “C&I”
April 2013 - Arab region
Training Session on conformance and interoperability “C&I”
October 2013 - African region
CERT LABs is proposed by ITU to be a regional laboratory for the Arab and Africain regions

• CERT LABs can:
– Give technical, reglementary and management assistance to countries willing to set up their own conformance scheme
– Make conformance tests for countries not having test laboratories
– Make documentary study as assistance to market control entities in arab and africain countries
– Give professional trainings

Reglementary
&
Institutional
Acquisitions
Civil infrastructure
Capacity building

Reglementary & institutional
• Texts of law adoption
• Market control authorities
• Notifying authorities
• Standardisation body
• Accreditation body

Civil infrastructure
• Architecture plan
• Civil engineering constraints
• Power supply constraints
• Climatic constraints
• Fire protection constraints

Acquisitions
• Anechoic chambers
• Shielded rooms
• Instruments
• Softwares
• Fixing the needs
• Writing and launching tender books
• Acquisitions reception

Capacity building
• Trainings for:
– Reglementary requirements
– Learning standards
– Management system
• Assistance to
– Writing tender books
– Writing technical procedures
– Quality management system
 Quality manual
 Quality procedures
– Uncertainty budget
• Pre-audit for laboratory accreditation

Accreditation

Accreditation according to the standard ISO 17025
– ISO / IEC 17025 contains the criteria to prove the competence of a laboratory.
• Management requirements
• Technical
– Accreditation is a formal recognition of the independent competence of a laboratory requirements

Thank you karim.wakil@cert.mincom.tn kais.siala@cert.mincom.tn