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'essential requirements' means those aspects of common conformity specifications of such importance as to necessitate compliance as a matter of legal obligation for the implementation of the mutual recognition of the results of conformity tests on terminal equipment as an integral part of the type approval procedure. These essential requirements are at present: user safety in so far as this requirement is not covered by Directive 73/23/EEC, safety of employees of public telecommunications network operators in so far as this requirement is not covered by Directive 73/23/EEC, protection of public telecommunications networks from harm, interworking of terminal equipment, in justified cases.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.