WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.794
30December 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-5630)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: JAPAN
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Ministry ofInternational Trade andIndustry
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification shall be
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers may beprovided inaddition, where applicable): Electric Appliance
(HS:84.85 andothers)
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Revision ofTechnical
Requirements forElectrical Appliances andMaterials (2pages, available inEnglish)
6. Description ofcontent: Inorder toadopt theinternational standards forelectrical
appliances andmaterials, torevise thetechnical requirements based ontheArticle 2of
theTechnical Requirements forElectrical Appliance andMaterial Control Law. Outline
oftherevision asfollows:
(1) Themethods ofconformity assessment andtheircriteria ofelectrical appliances
andmaterials willbasically adopt theinternational standards.
(2) Ifcertain international standards cannot beaccepted because ofsome unavoidable
reasons, (e.g. fundamental climatic orgeographical factors orfundamental
technological problems) those deviations willbeadded tothestandards.
7. Objective andrationale, including thenature ofurgent problems where applicable: To
align thetechnical requirements ofelectrical appliances andmaterials more closely, with
theinternational standards (IEC Standards).
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8. Relevant documents: Thebasic lawistheElectrical Appliance andMaterial Control
Law.
9. Proposed dateofadoption: March 1998
Proposed dateofentry intoforce: Notyetdetermined
10. Final dateforcomments: 10March 1998
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress, e-mail andtelefax number
ofother body: