Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1538

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Band No	Frequency band	Category of short-range devices	Transmit power limit/ field strength limit/power density limit	Additional parameters (channelling and/or channel access and occupation rules)	Other usage restrictions	Implementation deadline
1	874-874,4 MHz	Non-specific short-range devices^note	500 mW e.r.p.Adaptive Power Control (APC) required, alternatively other mitigation techniques which achieve at least an equivalent level of spectrum compatibility	Techniques to access spectrum and mitigate interference that provide an appropriate level of performance to comply with the essential requirements of Directive 2014/53/EU shall be used. If relevant techniques are described in harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union under Directive 2014/53/EU, performance at least equivalent to these techniques shall be ensured.Bandwidth ≤ 200 kHzDuty cycle ≤ 10 % for network access points^noteDuty cycle 2,5 % otherwise	This set of usage conditions is only available for data networksAll nomadic and mobile devices within the data network shall be controlled by a master network access point^note,^note,^note,^note	1 July 2022
2	916,4-919,4 MHz	Wideband data transmission devices^note	25 mW e.r.p	Techniques to access spectrum and mitigate interference that provide an appropriate level of performance to comply with the essential requirements of Directive 2014/53/EU shall be used. If relevant techniques are described in harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union under Directive 2014/53/EU, performance at least equivalent to these techniques shall be ensured.Bandwidth: > 600 kHz and ≤ 1 MHzDuty cycle ≤ 10 % for network access points^noteDuty cycle ≤ 2,8 % otherwise	This set of usage conditions is only available for wideband short-range devices in data networksAll nomadic and mobile devices within the data network shall be controlled by a master network access point^note,^note,^note	1 October 2025
3	916,1-918,9 MHz^note	Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices^note	Interrogator transmissions at 4 W e.r.p. only permitted at the centre frequencies 916,3 MHz, 917,5 MHz, 918,7 MHz	Techniques to access spectrum and mitigate interference that provide an appropriate level of performance to comply with the essential requirements of Directive 2014/53/EU shall be used. If relevant techniques are described in harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union under Directive 2014/53/EU, performance at least equivalent to these techniques shall be ensured.Bandwidth ≤ 400 kHz	^note,^note,^note	1 July 2022
4	917,3-918,9 MHz	Non-specific short-range devices^note	500 mW e.r.p.Transmissions only permitted within the frequency ranges 917,3-917,7 MHz, 918,5-918,9 MHzAdaptive Power Control (APC) required, alternatively other mitigation techniques which achieve at least an equivalent level of spectrum compatibility	Techniques to access spectrum and mitigate interference that provide an appropriate level of performance to comply with the essential requirements of Directive 2014/53/EU shall be used. If relevant techniques are described in harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union under Directive 2014/53/EU, performance at least equivalent to these techniques shall be ensured.Bandwidth ≤ 200 kHzDuty cycle ≤ 10 % for network access points^noteDuty cycle ≤ 2,5 % otherwise	This set of usage conditions is only available for data networksAll nomadic and mobile devices within the data network shall be controlled by a master network access point^note,^note,^note,^note	1 July 2022
5	916,1-919,4 MHz	Non-specific short-range devices^note	25 mW e.r.p.	Techniques to access spectrum and mitigate interference that provide an appropriate level of performance to comply with the essential requirements of Directive 2014/53/EU shall be used. If relevant techniques are described in harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union under Directive 2014/53/EU, performance at least equivalent to these techniques shall be ensured.Bandwidth ≤ 600 kHzDuty cycle ≤ 1 %	This set of usage conditions is only available for short-range device in data networksAll nomadic and mobile devices within the data network shall be controlled by a master network access point^note,^note,^note	1 October 2025

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category of short-range devices
means a group of short-range or networked short-range devices that use spectrum with similar technical spectrum access mechanisms or based on common usage scenarios.
non-interference and non-protected basis
means that no harmful interference may be caused to any radio communication service and that no claim may be made for protection of these devices against interference originating from radio communication services;
short-range device
means a radio device which provides either unidirectional or bidirectional communication and which receives and/or transmits over a short distance at low power;

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1538

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