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EU and US to co-operate on biometrics standards, regulatory treatment of radio devices

On Monday the EU and US “endorsed a concrete roadmap to improve regulatory cooperation” in a range of industry sectors. Of relevance to this blog:

Information and Communications Technology Standards: Initial projects under this dialogue include information exchange on e-accessibility, security, and biometrics.

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Telecommunications and Radio-communications Equipment, Electromagnetic Compatibility: consider cooperative approaches for achieving consistent regulatory treatment of telecommunications and radio-communications products whenever possible.

I’m not sure what the impact of the second area might be (introduce a ‘Part 15’-style exemption in Europe? remove the exemption in the US?) but the first area – information exchange on security and biometrics – sounds worthy of monitoring.