WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.445
18September 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-3748)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: SWEDEN
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Swedish Radiation Protection Institute
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above: National Board ofTrade
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 maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): Dosemeters
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Draft Regulations of
theSwedish Radiation Protection Institute Concerning Monitoring andReporting of
Individual Radiation Doses. (9pages inSwedish andEnglish).
6. Description ofcontent: Thedraftlaysdown tolerances formeasuring ranges, accuracy
andangular response fordosemeters usedinmonitoring ofdoses forpeople working
withionising radiation (paragraph 16).
7. Objective andrationale: Tosystematically attain adequate quality inthemonitoring of
individual doses.
8. Relevant documents: Draft proposal
9. Proposed dateofadoption: Assoonaspossible
Proposed dateofentry intoforce: 1January 1999
10. Final dateforcomments: 15November 1997
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: