06/02/2021

IARU Region 1 Spectrum Affairs Chair Barry Lewis, G4SJH, reports that efforts
continue[1] in defending the interests of amateur radio during preparations by
CEPT - the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
- for World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23). The International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) sponsors the WRC. Meeting on May 21, the IARU
worked with CEPT regional telecommunications organizations (RTOs) at the third
meeting of the Conference Preparatory Group (CPG). The CPG is the parent group
in CEPT that oversees the development of the CEPT Briefs for each WRC-23 agenda
item, and reviews the progress of individual project teams under the CPG
umbrella.

IARU put forward the agreed preliminary IARU positions[2] for agenda items that
could affect amateur radio. IARU's overall objective is to safeguard the
allocations to the Amateur and Amateur-Satellite services in the co- and
adjacent-frequency bands within the scope of each agenda item. CEPT Briefs
include a specific section in which the views of all the recognized
international and regional organizations can be placed, and IARU's views are
now in this section of the draft briefs for each agenda item of interest.

The meeting also heard presentations from other Region 1 RTOs, as well as
organizations from Region 2 and Region 3 about their preparations. These
presentations and the CEPT meeting document[3] drafts are available via the
CEPT website. The IARU Spectrum and Regulatory Liaison Committee (SRLC)
continues to be active in all the CEPT project teams dealing with the WRC
preparation.

The SRLC Report on the CPG meeting is available here[4].

A list of the CPG Project Teams and applicable WRC-23 Agenda Items can be seen
here[5].

In other IARU news, IARU member-societies have voted to admit new members
representing amateur radio interests in Kyrgyzstan and Bahrain. The Amateur
Radio Union of the Kyrgyz Republic (ARUKR[6]) was founded in 1993. The Bahrain
Amateur Radio Society (BARS) 

[1] https://www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IARU-Report-from-CPG_May-2021.docx
[2] https://www.iaru-r1.org/2021/iaru-continues-engagement-in-the-wrc-23-preparations/
[3] https://cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/cpg/client/meeting-documents/
[4] http://www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IARU-Report-from-CPG_May-2021.docx
[5] http://www.iaru-r1.org/2021/iaru-continues-engagement-in-the-wrc-23-preparations
[6] http://www.qrzex.com/

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