S.L. 399.48 Art. 100Interoperability of car radio and consumer radio receivers and consumer digital television equipment. S.L. 549.89.

(1) The Authority shall ensure the interoperability of car radio receivers and consumer digital television equipment in accordance with the Eleventh Schedule.

(2) The Authority may adopt measures to ensure the interoperability of other consumer radio receivers, while limiting the impact on the market for low-value radio broadcast receivers and ensuring that such measures are not applied to products where a radio receiver is purely ancillary, such as smart phones, and to equipment used by radio amateurs.

(3) The Authority shall encourage providers of digital television services to ensure, where appropriate, that the digital television equipment that they provide to their end-users is interoperable in accordance with the Eleventh Schedule so that, where technically feasible, the digital television equipment is reusable with other providers of digital television services:

Provided that digital television equipment which complies with harmonised standards the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, or with parts thereof, shall be considered to comply with the requirement of interoperability set out in sub-regulation (4) covered by those standards or parts thereof.

(4) Without prejudice to regulation 5(2) of the Waste

Management (Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Regulations, the Authority shall ensure that, upon termination of their contract, end-users have the possibility to return the digital television equipment through a free and easy process, unless the provider demonstrates that it is fully interoperable with the digital television services of other providers, including those to which the end-user has switched.