Designation of Conformity Assessment Bodies
Under Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA)

    Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) under Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India has been appointed as the Designating Authority (DA) on behalf of DoT for Telecom Equipment under MRA between India and Singapore. TEC has the role of designating Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) located in India to perform testing and certification of telecom products to the Mutual Recognition Agreement or Arrangement (MRA) partner’s requirements. The role of TEC as DA is also to register CABs located in the territory of MRA partner to perform testing and certification of telecom products to India’s requirements.
  
   To qualify for designation, CABs must fulfil the criteria of designation. These will be assessed by TEC in accordance with the criteria laid down by TEC. TEC will issue Certificate of Designation to CAB. These certificates will be valid for 3 years and may be renewed 6 months before the expiry date. The Designating Authority will suspend and/or withdraw the designation of CAB in case they contravene the terms and conditions of designation.

  The following documents lay down the procedures and criteria for designating Conformity Assessment Bodies for testing and/or certifying to the MRA partner’s requirements between India and Singapore. A Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) in India interested in certifying and/or testing of any telecom products to the requirements of a foreign country/custom territory that has entered into Mutual Recognition Agreement or Arrangement with India need to apply to TEC, the Designating Authority for Telecom Equipment. The document also lays down the procedure for registering CABs designated by the MRA partners to certify to Indian requirements.

   TEC as the Designating Authority reserves the right to amend and introduce new requirements to this scheme as and when required.
    India has MRA with Singapore in Telecom Sector. For recognising Indian CAB’s, they have also scheme for recognition which gives details of their Telecom Specifications and Test Procedure. The details regarding designation by Singapore is detailed in
“Scheme for Recognising Foreign Testing and Certification Bodies for Conformity Assessment of Telecommunication Equipment”.
and other details about Singapore on Telecom sector is available at Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Singapore.