Report No. IN 97-3 February 4, 1997 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU PUTS HANDBOOK ON PROCEDURES FOR CERTIFICATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT IN THE NIS AND THE BALTICS ON INTERNATIONAL BUREAU HOME PAGE Today the International Bureau placed the handbook on procedures for certification of telecommunications equipment in the New Independent States (NIS) on its home page, at http://www.fcc.gov/ib/td/md/nis/. The handbook is a cooperative effort of the communications ministries in the NIS and the Baltics, working with FCC representatives, and is designed to provide useful information to U.S. companies interested in certification of telecommunications equipment in the New Independent States. The handbook is a product of short-term project funding from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA). The home page listing contains country-by-country certification procedures that U.S. manufacturers must follow to sell telecommunications equipment in the region, which appear as Part 1 in the handbook. Part 2 of the handbook, prepared at the request of the participating ministries, is a description of the international experience with equipment certification, including manufacturer Declarations of Conformity, mutual acceptance of test data, and harmonized technical requirements. The participating NIS and Baltic countries are: Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Printed hard copies of the handbook, in both the English and Russian languages, will be available in March. Hard copies of the home page version of the handbook are available in the International Bureau Reference Room, Room 102, 2000 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Copies also may be obtained from the Commission's contractor for public service records duplication: ITS, Inc., 2100 M Street, N.W., Suite 140, Washington, D.C. 20037, (202)857-3800. -FCC-