WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ESP/10
13 February 2002
(02-0725)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  SPAIN
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Development. Technical General Secretariat.
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 [     ], 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):   Prefabricated concrete
bars, whether reinforced or prestressed, beam pieces (ceramics, concrete or expanded
polystyrene).
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Specifications
[Instrucción ] for the Design and Execution of Unidirectional Slabs in Structural Concrete,
Made with Prefabricated Elements. EFHE (63 pages in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   Regulates the design and execution of unidirectional slabs.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  To
harmonize Specifications EF-96 with the Sp ecifications for Structural Concrete, and to
reflect the latest trends in the areas of structural analysis, limit states, durability, execution
and control.
8. Relevant documents:   EF-96 and EHE.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: } April 2002
10. Final date for comments:   10 March 2002.
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:           