UK PSTI Product Security Relevant Connectable Products

Start with the physical product. It is a relevant connectable product only if it is internet-connectable or network-connectable under section 5 and is not an excepted product under section 6 and Schedule 3 of the Regulations.

An internet-connectable product can send and receive data over the internet using a protocol in the Internet Protocol suite. A network-connectable product can send and receive data by electrical or electromagnetic transmission, is not itself internet-connectable, and meets one of section 5's two direct-connectability conditions. Those conditions cover an IP-suite connection to an internet-connectable product or specified non-IP connections involving an internet-connectable product and, in one branch, two or more simultaneous product connections. A wired connection can still be direct for this test.

Section 5 also treats some wireless computer-input products as meeting the second condition when they are designed to work with a linking product that connects by a non-IP protocol to an internet-connectable product. A wire or cable used only to connect products is disregarded when counting the two simultaneous product connections, but a wire does not stop a connection from being direct.

Relevant product status is only the first step. The manufacturer, importer, and distributor duties use the separate UK consumer connectable product concept in section 54 and actor-specific intention, awareness, or 'ought to be aware' conditions in Chapter 2.

A UK consumer connectable product can qualify when it is first made available to consumers in the United Kingdom. It can also qualify when first made available to non-consumers if products identical to it are or have been made available to UK consumers. Record the actual UK route, intended users, sales material, customer restrictions, and whether identical consumer products exist.

Do not decide the first-supply question from an invoice alone. Section 54 has specific rules for unwanted-product returns, returns made under the PSTI regime, products reconditioned by or for a manufacturer, and certain intermediary supplies. Section 55 also treats gifts, prizes, installation into a building, and some hire or lending arrangements as supply, while excluding transport-only services and scrap sales.

Keep the product model and configuration, connectivity diagram, intended purpose, instructions and promotional material, consumer-availability evidence, identical-product analysis, Schedule 3 review, UK supply chain, branding, and dated conclusion. State which facts would change the answer.

Reassess after changes to radios, gateways, associated products, branding, intended users, UK distribution, or the exception list. A prior decision for a related model is evidence, not a substitute for the current product test.