- Identifies categories of radio equipment covered by Article 3(3)(d), (e), and (f) cybersecurity, privacy, and fraud-protection requirements.
"points (d), (e) and (f)"
This RED calendar helps plan product launches, documentation freezes, CE marking checks, common-charger updates, cybersecurity evidence, and standards monitoring for radio equipment placed on the EU market.
The key fixed dates are 13 June 2016 for RED application, 12 June 2017 for the end of the transition period, 28 December 2024 for most common-charger device categories, 1 August 2025 for RED cybersecurity requirements, and 28 April 2026 for laptops.
Structured answer sets in this page tree.
Cited legal and guidance references.
If your product is radio equipment, start with the category. Most products follow RED from 13 June 2016, but the common-charger date applies to the listed handheld categories from 28 December 2024, laptops from 28 April 2026, and the RED cybersecurity requirements apply from 1 August 2025 for the affected categories. Use the deadline that matches your product, then work back to the release gate for test evidence, labels, instructions, and the EU declaration.
Directive 2014/53/EU was published in the Official Journal on 22 May 2014, entered into force on 11 June 2014, and has applied from 13 June 2016. The Commission RED overview also notes a one-year transition that ended on 12 June 2017, during which manufacturers could place radio equipment compliant with either RED or the earlier applicable EU legislation.
For current launches, the most operational RED dates are category-specific: common-charger duties apply to handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, portable speakers, handheld videogame consoles, e-readers, earbuds, keyboards, mice, and portable navigation systems from 28 December 2024, and to laptops from 28 April 2026. RED cybersecurity duties under Article 3(3)(d), (e), and (f), as activated by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 and amended by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2444, apply from 1 August 2025.
Map RED applicability, common-charger, cybersecurity, standards, CE marking, declaration, and retention dates to product owners and evidence before launch.
A RED compliance calendar should separate legal dates from release gates. The legal date tells the team which obligation is active; the release gate should say when the product file, supplier evidence, labels, instructions, test reports, notified-body route decision, EU declaration, and packaging artwork must be ready.
Common-charger planning needs extra granularity because it affects hardware, packaging, distance-selling pages, consumer information, and SKU strategy. Cybersecurity planning should confirm whether the equipment is in an affected Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 category and whether harmonised standards fully cover the relevant Article 3(3) requirements by the time the conformity route is chosen.
Calendar the evidence freeze before the legal deadline, not on the deadline itself. Article 10 requires manufacturers to draw up technical documentation, carry out the relevant conformity assessment, draw up the EU declaration of conformity, affix CE marking, and keep the technical documentation and EU declaration for 10 years after the radio equipment has been placed on the market.
Importers also have 10-year declaration-retention obligations, and economic operators must be able to identify who supplied them with radio equipment and to whom they supplied it for 10 years. For deadline planning, this means the calendar should include document-retention ownership after launch, not only pre-launch testing.
Do not treat a RED calendar as finished after the launch date is entered. Harmonised-standard references can be added, restricted, or withdrawn, and product changes can require the conformity assessment to be revisited. Directive 2014/53/EU requires changes in radio equipment design or characteristics and changes in harmonised standards or other technical specifications to be adequately taken into account.
For recurring calendar reviews, track OJEU standards updates, Commission delegated and implementing acts, supplier firmware or hardware changes, notified-body certificate conditions, complaints, field incidents, authority correspondence, and any change to charging accessories or software that could affect the declared configuration.
"points (d), (e) and (f)"
"harmonised standards of high quality"
"The manufacturer is responsible for the conformity assessment."
"from 28 December 2024"
"changes in the harmonised standards"
"assess the conformity of certain products"
"These requirements will also apply to laptops as of 28 April 2026."
"applicable as of 13 June 2016"
"published in the Official Journal"