Press release: The Telecommunications Office of the Slovak Republic (TÚ SR) has published a draft amendment to the Measures of the TÚ SR, which will enable the obtaining of certificates for operators of maritime long-distance navigation (LRC) and operators of maritime coastal navigation (SRC). TÚ SR further proposes that the telegraphy exam for the radio amateur service is not mandatory. The amendment will reduce the number of amateur radio classes from the original four to two, one of which will be for beginners. According to the amendment, even radio amateurs - beginners will be able to operate amateur stations abroad, according to the current situation they do not have this option. TÚ SR prepared a draft amendment due to the implementation of international regulations for navigational mobile service and for amateur service into the regulations of the Slovak Republic.
TÚ SR published a draft amendment to the measure of TÚ SR, which establishes details on certificates of special professional competence for operating selected radio equipment, on the establishment of an examination committee and on the content, scope and course of the examination. The changes in the measures of the TÚ SR implement the provisions of the recommendations of the European Radiocommunication Committee concerning the navigational mobile service in the matter of the procedure for testing operators and certificates that authorize their holders to operate the devices of the global maritime safety and rescue system at sea on ships that are not mandatorily equipped with these means. The changes further implement the provisions of the recommendations of the European Radiocommunication Committee and the Committee for Electronic Communications concerning the license to operate an amateur radio amateur station, as well as the content of examinations for radio amateurs of this class.
Comments on the proposal can be sent electronically between April 27 and May 21, 2007.
The proposal is published at http://www.teleoff.gov.sk/sk/Diskusie/index.html
In Bratislava on April 25, 2007.
Roman Vavro, spokesman of the Slovak Technical University
Tel.: 02/57 88 15 52
e-mail: roman.vavro@teleoff.gov.sk