CEPT licensing for Russia on the cards

Russia may be on the verge of signing on to the pan-European CEPT ham radio licensing scheme.

According to information supplied by Mitch Wolfson,
DJ0QN, a working committee in that nation recently held a workshop to prepare a draft recommendation to the State Commission on radio frequencies. In it, the committee recommends joining the T/T 61-01 agreement for reciprocal licensing in 2009.

The only objection came from those concerned with issues of national security, but the proposal worked out seems to satisfy Russia's Federal Security Service and it's expected that the proposal will move forward into the Russian rule making process.

More information in the Russian language is at
http://www.srr.ru.

Source: ARNewsline, DJ0QN