Reflection Of The NJFA In The ERC Report 25 (ECA Table) And Relation To EFIS And To The RSPP Inventory CEPT/ECC Civil/Military Meeting, 23-24 November 2016, Prague Thomas Weber, ECO, Spectrum Management Thomas.weber@eco.cept.org

Overview NJFA Reflection in the ECA Table Use of application terminology EFIS and the RSPP inventory Related information and documentation in EFIS

NJFA in the ECA Table (I) Chapter 5 – Military Requirements Liaison with military authorities from CEPT countries has also been necessary in view of their use of, and requirements in, the relevant frequency range. Although no single representative military body exists for all CEPT member countries, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has a Joint Civil/Military Frequency Agreement (NJFA) which is taken into account by NATO nations as a base contribution for radio frequency planning and policy making. A forum that allows both civil and military frequency managers from all CEPT countries to meet has also been established by CEPT. This forum, the civil military meeting, considers requirements for harmonised military usage of spectrum to meet the needs of both NATO and non-NATO CEPT countries and invites WGFM to consider follow-up actions. A public version of the NJFA 2014 is expected to be provided by NATO to ECO by the end of 2016.

NJFA in the ECA Table (II) The last ECA Table Revision was published in June 2016. Section 5 (military requirements) was amended. As a consequence of the changes in section 5, the definitions of military terms in section 6 were deleted. ECA36 Footnote included: A frequency band, which has been harmonised by NATO and NATO member nations for military use as defined in the NATO Joint Civil/Military Frequency Agreement (NJFA) 2014. Future ECA Table Revisions will be discussed in EFIS/MG (next revised edition for PC approval in May 2017). EFIS/MG was tasked to review section 5 (military applications) of ERC Report 25 (see also minutes of the ECC meeting in June 2016, doc. FM(16)173). EFIS/MG was tasked to consider the public available NJFA in the revision of ERC Report 25.

Use of Application Terminology The application terminology is defined in ECC Decision (01)03 Annex 2. EFIS is the tool to fulfill EC Decision 2007/344/EC on the harmonised availability of information regarding spectrum use in Europe and the ECC Decision ECC/DEC/(01)03 on EFIS. The NATO Civil/Military Spectrum Capability Panel (CaP3) invited the NATO nations to provide information to the EFIS database on the military use of spectrum including EFIS application layer 2 as a harmonised approach, except where national laws do not allow. WGFM decided that in cases where several layer 2 applications are utilised, the layer 1 terminology will be used. This statement is also included in CEPT Report 46 (published March 2013).

EFIS and the RSPP Inventory EFIS has also a role to play in the European Union’s spectrum inventory, which is part of the programme of initiatives set out in the EU Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (RSPP). The ECC’s recommendations on the scope of this have been covered in CEPT Report 46 and CEPT Report 47 under mandate from the Commission. The Commission has, within its Radio Spectrum Committee, adopted an Implementing Act for the spectrum inventory which references the role that EFIS should play in it. Information will flow from Member States to EFIS then to the EC. With EFIS you can search for and compare spectrum utilisation across Europe as well as related information such as CEPT activities, radio interface specifications according to the R&TTE Directive and other national or international regulations. Radio Equipment Directive: According to recital 24 - Member states are to use the Frequency Information System (EFIS) of the European Communications Office (ECO) in order to make comparable information regarding the use of radio spectrum in each Member State available to the public via the internet.

Spectrum Inventory Related Information in EFIS

Documentation Types in EFIS Regulatory documentation types: EC Decisions ECC Decisions/Recommendations ETSI Harmonised Standards Licensing Info NTFAs Other Radio Interface Specifications & templates, equipment class 1 subclasses (R&TTE and RED) and class 2 information about harmonised use (no official class 2 subclasses under RED anymore) Spectrum Inventory: ECC/ ECO Reports ETSI system Reference Documents / draft System Reference Documents EU Reports (e.g. study results) National / Third Party Reports Questionnaire summaries Information can be searched after doc type, application(s) and frequency range(s) New documentation database in 2017 and documentation web-service

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