# Standards & frameworks

> The bodies and documents that set exposure values, separated into legally enforceable regulation, scientific guidelines, and precautionary frameworks.

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- Records: 25

## Records

- [ARPANSA RPS S-1 (2021)](https://emfbase.com/standards/arpansa-rps-s1): Australia's RF standard for 100 kHz–300 GHz, aligned with ICNIRP 2020 and enforced through licence conditions and the ACMA device standard.
- [BioInitiative Report 2012 precautionary levels](https://emfbase.com/standards/bioinitiative-2012): Advocacy-group review proposing precautionary RF and ELF targets far below regulatory limits; widely cited in campaigns and widely disputed by health authorities.
- [Brazil Anatel RF exposure limits (Ato 17865/2023)](https://emfbase.com/standards/brazil-anatel-emf-limits): Brazil legislates by reference: Lei 11.934/2009 adopts the WHO-recommended limits, and Anatel's Ato 17865/2023 put the ICNIRP 2020 values in force for 8.3 kHz–300 GHz from 1 March 2024.
- [Brussels-Capital non-ionising radiation ordinance](https://emfbase.com/standards/brussels-non-ionising-radiation-ordinance): Brussels sets its own cumulative power-density limits for fixed transmitters — 0.5635 W/m² outdoors and 0.2243 W/m² indoors at 900 MHz — and bans public mobile antennas from 20 to 300 GHz.
- [Building Biology SBM-2024 evaluation guidelines](https://emfbase.com/standards/building-biology-sbm-2024): Precautionary assessment bands used by building biologists to grade bedroom measurements from 'no anomaly' to 'extreme anomaly'; not exposure limits and not law.
- [China GB 8702-2014 electromagnetic environment control limits](https://emfbase.com/standards/china-gb-8702-2014): China's mandatory national standard for public exposure from 1 Hz to 300 GHz, referencing ICNIRP 1998 and IEEE but setting values of its own that are stricter in the mobile bands.
- [EU Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC](https://emfbase.com/standards/eu-council-recommendation-1999-519-ec): The public-exposure reference framework across the European Union, based on ICNIRP 1998, transposed into national law with varying strictness.
- [EUROPAEM EMF Guideline 2016](https://emfbase.com/standards/europaem-emf-guideline-2016): Precautionary medical-association guidance proposing day, night and sensitive-population target values per transmission technology.
- [FCC Maximum Permissible Exposure (47 CFR 1.1310)](https://emfbase.com/standards/fcc-mpe): Legally binding U.S. exposure limits for radiofrequency transmitters from 300 kHz to 100 GHz, adopted from NCRP and ANSI/IEEE recommendations in 1996 and reaffirmed in 2019.
- [Flanders VLAREM transmitting antenna norms](https://emfbase.com/standards/flanders-vlarem-antenna-norms): Flanders caps the cumulative field from all fixed transmitters at 0.686 √f V/m — 20.6 V/m at 900 MHz, 30.7 V/m from 2 GHz up — with a separate per-operator condition in VLAREM chapter 6.10.
- [Health Canada Safety Code 6 (2015)](https://emfbase.com/standards/safety-code-6): Canada's RF exposure code from 3 kHz to 300 GHz, issued by Health Canada as a guideline and made effectively mandatory for wireless equipment through ISED's certification requirements.
- [ICNIRP 2010 low-frequency guidelines (1 Hz–100 kHz)](https://emfbase.com/standards/icnirp-2010): International guidelines for power-frequency electric and magnetic fields, the tier that covers household wiring, transformers and transmission lines.
- [ICNIRP 2020 RF guidelines (100 kHz–300 GHz)](https://emfbase.com/standards/icnirp-2020): International guidelines that most countries outside the U.S. adopt into law, covering 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile phones and base stations.
- [IEEE C95.1-2019](https://emfbase.com/standards/ieee-c95-1-2019): Consensus engineering standard for 0 Hz–300 GHz human exposure, harmonised with ICNIRP 2020 in most bands and widely referenced in equipment compliance work.
- [India DoT base-station EMF norms (1/10th of ICNIRP)](https://emfbase.com/standards/india-dot-emf-norms): India enforces base-station exposure limits set at one tenth of the ICNIRP 1998 power-density reference levels, effective 1 September 2012 and applied as a telecom licence condition.
- [Italy DPCM 8 July 2003 (as amended 2024)](https://emfbase.com/standards/italy-dpcm-2003): Italy's three-tier RF law — exposure limit, attention value and quality objective — whose precautionary tiers were raised from 6 V/m to 15 V/m on 30 April 2024.
- [Japan METI technical standards for electrical facilities (magnetic fields)](https://emfbase.com/standards/japan-meti-electrical-facilities-magnetic-limit): Japan caps the power-frequency magnetic flux density from transformers, switchgear and power lines at 200 µT in spaces people occupy — the ICNIRP 2010 reference level, in force since 1 October 2011.
- [Japan Radio Radiation Protection Guidelines (電波防護指針)](https://emfbase.com/standards/japan-radio-radiation-protection-guidelines): Japan's radio-wave protection values, made binding by the Radio Law Enforcement Regulations: 27.5 V/m from 30 to 300 MHz and 61.4 V/m above 1.5 GHz for the general environment, six-minute averaged.
- [Korea EMF human protection standard (전자파 인체보호기준)](https://emfbase.com/standards/korea-emf-human-protection-standard): Korea's binding exposure standard under Radio Waves Act art. 47-2, tracking the ICNIRP 1998 reference levels: 61 V/m above 2 GHz and 83.3 µT at power frequency for the general public.
- [Poland environmental EMF limits (Dz.U. 2019 poz. 2448)](https://emfbase.com/standards/poland-environmental-emf-limits-2019): Poland replaced its 7 V/m environmental RF limit with the EU/ICNIRP reference levels on 1 January 2020, while keeping a stricter 1000 V/m 50 Hz electric-field value for land zoned for housing.
- [Russia SanPiN public RF limits](https://emfbase.com/standards/russia-sanpin-rf): Russia's sanitary norms for public RF exposure, which cap power flux density at 10 µW/cm² from 300 MHz to 300 GHz — about a hundredth of the ICNIRP reference level.
- [Swiss ONIR / NISV installation limit values](https://emfbase.com/standards/swiss-onir-nisv): Switzerland's precaution-based installation limits for fixed transmitters and power lines, roughly a factor of 10 below ICNIRP in field strength terms.
- [UK Ofcom EMF licence condition](https://emfbase.com/standards/ofcom-emf-licence-condition): The mechanism that makes the ICNIRP general-public exposure limits legally enforceable in the United Kingdom, applied as a condition on spectrum licences since 2021.
- [Wallonia stationary transmitting antenna decree](https://emfbase.com/standards/wallonia-stationary-antenna-decree): Wallonia replaced its 3 V/m per-antenna limit with 9.2 V/m per operator plus an 18.4 V/m cumulative limit in places of stay, and bans public mobile antennas from 20 to 300 GHz.
- [WHO ELF evidence framework](https://emfbase.com/standards/who-elf-evidence-framework): The World Health Organization's assessment of the extremely-low-frequency evidence base, which sets no exposure limit but records the daily-average magnetic field level above which epidemiology reports an association with childhood leukaemia.