Canada Approval

Standards

• Broadcasting equipment standards
• Radio equipment standards
• Digital television standards (DTV)
• Interference - Causing Equipment Standards (ICES)
• Standard Radio System Plans (SRSP)
• Terminal Equipment - Technical Specifications List (CS-03)

Radio equipment standards

• Radio Standards Specifications (RSS)
• Database Specifications (DBS)
• Category I Equipment Standards List
• Category II Equipment Standards List
• Licence-exempt Radio Apparatus Standards List
• Regulatory Standards Notice

Category I equipment standards list

• RSS-Gen — General Requirements for Compliance of Radio Apparatus

Issue 5, Amendment 1, March 2019

• RSS-HAC — Hearing Aid Compatibility and Volume Control

Issue 1, March 2019

• RSS-102 — Radio Frequency (RF) Exposure Compliance of Radiocommunication Apparatus (All Frequency Bands)

Issue 5, March 2015

• RSS-111 — Broadband Public Safety Equipment Operating in the Band 4940-4990 MHz

Issue 5, September 2014

• RSS-112 — Land Mobile and Fixed Equipment Operating in the Band 1670-1675 MHz

Issue 1, February 2008

• RSS-117 — Land and Coast Station Transmitters Using A1, A2, A3, A2H, or A3H Emissions Operating in the 200 - 535 kHz Band

Issue 3, January 2016

• RSS-119 — Land Mobile and Fixed Equipment Operating in the Frequency Range 27.41-960 MHz

Issue 12, May 2015

• RSS-123 — Licensed Low-Power Radio Apparatus

Issue 3, February 2015

• RSS-125 — Land Mobile and Fixed Radio Transmitters and Receivers, 1.705 to 50.0 MHz, Primarily Amplitude Modulated

Issue 2, Revision 1, March 2000

• RSS-127 — Air-Ground Equipment Operating in the Bands 849-851 MHz and 894-896 MHz

Issue 1, August 2009

• RSS-129 - 800 MHz Dual-Mode CDMA Cellular Telephones

Issue 2, September 1999

• Withdrawn January 2013
• RSS-130 — Mobile Broadband Services (MBS) Equipment Operating in the Frequency Bands 698-756 MHz and 777-787 MHz

Issue 2, February 2019

• RSS-131 — Zone Enhancers for the Land Mobile Service

Issue 3, January 2017

• Updated May 2017
• RSS-132 — 800 MHz Cellular Telephones Employing New Technologies

Issue 3, January 2013

• Updated January 2013
• RSS-133 - 2 GHz Personal Communication Services

Issue 6, January 2013

• Updated January 2013
• Amendment January 2018
• RSS-134 — 900 MHz Narrowband Personal Communications Services

Issue 2, February 2016

• RSS-135 — Digital Scanner Receivers

Issue 2, June 2009

• RSS-136 — Land and Mobile Station Radiotelephone Transmitters and Receivers Operating in the 26.960 - 27.410 MHz General Radio Service Band

Issue 5, October 2002

• Updated and renumbered to RSS-236 in November 2012
• RSS-137 — Location and Monitoring Service (902-928 MHz)

Issue 2, February 2009

• RSS-138 — Commercial Shipborne Radar in the 2900-3100 MHz, 5470-5650 MHz and 9225-9500 MHz Bands
• Replaced in July 2013 by RSS-238
• RSS-139 — Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) Equipment Operating in the Bands 1710-1780 MHz and 2110-2180 MHz

Issue 3, July 2015

• RSS-140 — Equipment Operating in the Public Safety Broadband Frequency Bands 758-768 MHz and 788-798 MHz

Issue 1, April 2018

• RSS-141 — Aeronautical Radiocommunication Equipment in the Frequency Band 117.975-137 MHz

Issue 2, June 2010

• RSS-142 — Narrowband Multipoint Communication Systems in the Bands 1429.5-1432 MHz

Issue 5, April 2013

• RSS-170 — Mobile Earth Stations (MESs) and Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) Equipment Operating in the Mobile-Satellite Service (MSS) Bands

Issue 3, July 2015

• RSS-181 — Coast and Ship Station Equipment Operating in the Maritime Service in the Frequency Range 1605-28000 kHz

Issue 2, August 2019

• Amendment, February 2020
• RSS-182 — Maritime Radio Transmitters and Receivers in the Band 156-162.5 MHz

Issue 5, January 2012

• RSS-187 — Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons, Emergency Locator Transmitters and Personal Locato Beaconsr
• Replaced by RSS-287
• RSS-188 — Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)

Issue 1 (Provisional), August 24, 1996

• Updated and renumbered to RSS-288 in January 2012
• RSS-191 — Local Multipoint Communication Systems in the Band 25.35-28.35 GHz; Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint Broadband Communication Systems in the Bands 24.25-24.45 GHz and 25.05-25.25 GHz; and Point-to-Multipoint Broadband Communications in the Band 38.6-40.0 GHz

Issue 3, April 2008

• RSS-192 — Fixed Wireless Access Equipment Operating in the Band 3450 - 3650 MHz

Issue 3, January 2008

• RSS-193 — Multipoint and Point-to-Point Communication Systems (MCS) in the Fixed Service Operating in the 2150-2160 MHz, 2500-2596 MHz and 2686-2690 MHz Bands

Issue 1, July 2003

• Rescinded in January 2012
• RSS-194 — Fixed Wireless Access Equipment Operating in the Band 953-960 MHz

Issue 1, October 2007

• RSS-195 — Wireless Communications Service Equipment Operating in the Bands 2305-2320 MHz and 2345-2360 MHz

Issue 2, April 2014

• RSS-196 — Point-to-Multipoint Broadband Equipment Operating in the Bands 512-608 MHz and 614-698 MHz for Rural Remote Broadband Systems (RRBS) (TV Channels 21 to 51)

Issue 2, February 2019

• RSS-197 — Wireless Broadband Access Equipment Operating in the Band 3650-3700 MHz

Issue 1, February 2010

• RSS-199 — Broadband Radio Service (BRS) Equipment Operating in the Band 2500-2690 MHz

Issue 3, December 2016

• RSS-210 — Licence-Exempt Radio Apparatus

Issue 10, December 2019

• RSS-211 — Level Probing Radar Equipment

Issue 1, March 2015

• RSS-213 — 2 GHz Licence-exempt Personal Communications Service Devices (LE-PCS)

Issue 3, March 2015

• RSS-215 — Analogue Scanner Receivers

Issue 2, June 2009

• RSS-216 — Wireless Power Transfer Devices (Wireless Chargers)

Issue 2, January 2016

• RSS-220 — Devices Using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Technology

Issue 1, March 2009

• (Amendment July 2018)
• RSS-222 — White Space Devices (WSDs)

Issue 2, January 2020

• RSS-236 — General Radio Service Equipment Operating in the Band 26.960 to 27.410 MHz (Citizens Band)

Issue 1, November 2012

• RSS-238 — Shipborne Radar in the 2900-3100 MHz and 9225-9500 MHz Bands

Issue 1, July 2013

• RSS-243 — Active Medical Implants Operating in the 401-406 MHz Band

Issue 3, February 2010

• RSS-244 — Medical Devices Operating in the Band 413-457 MHz

Issue 1, June 2013

• RSS-246 — Ultra-Low Power (ULP) Wireless Medical Capsule Endoscopy Devices Operating in the 430-440 MHz Band

Issue 1, March 2019

• RSS-247 — Digital Transmission Systems (DTSs), Frequency Hopping Systems (FHSs) and Licence-Exempt Local Area Network (LE-LAN) Devices

Issue 2, February 2017

• RSS-251 — Vehicular Radar and Airport Fixed or Mobile Radar in the 76-81 GHz Frequency Band

Issue 2, July 2018

• RSS-252 — Intelligent Transportation Systems — Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) — On-Board Unit (OBU)

Issue 1, September 2017

• RSS-287 - Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB), Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT), Personal Locator Beacons (PLB), and Maritime Survivor Locator Devices (MSLD)

Issue 2, March 2014

• RSS-288 — Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)

Issue 1, January 2012

• BETS-1 — Technical Standards and Requirements for Low Power Announce Transmitters in the Frequency Bands 525-1,705 kHz and 88-107.5 MHz

Issue 1, November 1996

• BETS-4 — Technical Standards and Requirements for Television Broadcasting Transmitters

Issue 1, November 1996

• BETS-5 — Technical Standards and Requirements for AM Broadcasting Transmitters

Issue 1, November 1996

• BETS-6 — Technical Standards and Requirements for FM Broadcasting Transmitters

Issue 2, August 2005

• BETS-8 — Technical Standards and Requirements for FM Transmitters Operating in Small Remote Communities

Issue 1 November 1996

• BETS-9 — Technical Standards and Requirements for Television Transmitters Operating in Small Remote Communities

Issue 1, November 1996

• Date modified: 2020-02-06