. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/TPKM/4
19 September 2002
(02-4996)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERROITORY OF
TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of
Economic Affairs (BSMI, MOEA)          
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:           
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):    Seventy-six (76)
mechanical products (HS Chapters 44, 68, 72, 73, 74, 84, 85, 87, 90, 94 and 95)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:
The Public Notice issued by the MOEA for mechanical products (Chinese, 12 pages)
6. Description of content:
The proposed regulation revises the applicable modules of certain mechanical products
under the Registration of Product Certification Scheme and extends the applicable period of
the bath-by-batch inspection for certain mechanical products.  All products covered in this
proposed regulation are already subject to mandatory inspection.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To improve and streamline the conformity assessment procedures.
8. Relevant documents:   Please see section 5.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }  January 2003
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from date of notificationG/TBT/N/TPKM/4
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11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point, Information, Center, Bureau of Standards, Metrology and
Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs, 4 Chinan Road, Section 1, Taipei, 100 Taiwan.
Telephone: (886-2) 2343-1978, 2343-1985   Telefax: (886-2) 3343-5173, 2343-1986Email: tbtenq@bsni.gov.tw          