. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/FRA/25
13 October 2003
(03-5390)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  French
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  FRANCE
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:
Ministry of the Interior
Directorate of Civil Defence and Safety
Place Beauvau
75800 PARIS Cedex 08
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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):  Access to and
construction, layout and operation of all or certain buildings open to the public.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Order
Approving Provisions Supplementing and Amending the Safety Regulations Governing Fire
and Panic Hazards in Buildings Open to the Public. General Provisions and Small-Scale
Establishments  (6 pages).
6. Description of content:  This draft Regulation concerns the provision of detailed
documents relating to building service systems, the characteristics of emergency service
access routes, exemption from the requirement to erect guardrails on the audience side ofstages, installation of heat production and distribution equipment in small-scale
establishments, air treatment and controlled mechanical ventilation installations in small-
scale establishments and the structural fire stability
 of small-scale health-case institutions at
ground-floor level.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
This draft Order aims to:
- Integrate technical innovations and behavioural development;- improve the readability of the text by adapting it to changes in practical application;
- ensure consistency in these areas with regulations on other branches of economic
activity.
8. Relevant documents:   NoneG/TBT/N/FRA/25
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  November 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  December 2003
10. Final date for comments:  60 days
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of other body:
National enquiry point
CINORTECH (National Information Centre on Standards and Technical Regulations)
AFNOR (French Standards Association)
11, avenue Francis de Pressensé93571 SAINT-DENIS-LA PLAINE Cedex