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10 January 2022  
(22-0216) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
UNDER PARAGRAPH C OF THE WTO TBT CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE  
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE  
Under paragraph C of the Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption and Application of 
Standards contained in Annex 3 to the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, 
"Standardizing bodies that have accepted or withdrawn from this Code shall n otify this fact to the 
ISO/IEC Information Centre in Geneva." The following notification conveyed to the Secretariat from 
the ISO/IEC Information Centre is being circulated for the information of Members.  
 
Country/Customs Territory/Regional Arrangement:  United States of America  
Name of standardizing body:  RTCA, Inc.  
Address of standardizing body: 1150 18th Street NW, Suite 910, Washington, DC 20036  
Telephone:  +1 202 330 0650  Fax:  
Email:  tmcvenes@rtca.org  Internet:   
Type of standardizing body:   
 [   ] central governmental  
[   ] local governmental  
[ X ] non-governmental  
Scope of current and expected standardization activities:  RTCA's  historic role in aviation 
has been to provide the forum and consensus industry voice for government/industry cooperation 
on concepts of operations for the air traffic control system along with the standards and guidelines 
needed for implementing new syste ms in aircraft. As technological advances leading to improved 
safety and efficiency of the NAS grew to require deployment of integrated operational capabilities 
with components both in the cockpit and on the ground, the need for enhanced public -private 
partnership has grown.  
Date: 14 December 2021   
 
 
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