WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.96.396
14November 1996
ORGANIZATION
(96-4847)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: FINLAND
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Telecommunications Administration Centre (TAC)
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
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 maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): ThisRegulation shall
apply toMF/HF radiotelephones, MF/HF radiotelex equipment, emergency position
indicating radio beacons (EPIRB) operating on121.5 and243MHz, emergency position
indicating radio beacons (EPIRB) operating on406MHz, emergency position indicating
radio beacons (EPIRB) operating on1.6GHzband, portable UHF radiotelephones, radar
transponders (SART), digital selective calling equipment (DSC), watchkeeping receivers
on2182 kHzandNAVTEX safety datareceivers.
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Regulation on
Type-Approval Requirements forCertain Maritime Radio Equipment (5pages, available
inEnglish)
6. Description ofcontent: ThisdraftRegulation isanup-dated version ofTAC 19/93 M.
Itsscope covers allradio equipment inthemaritime mobile service except formaritime
VHF radiotelephones forwhich there isanother regulation. Thepurpose ofthe
amendments done nowwastoupdate thestandard references andtoremove some old
equipment groups forwhich newtypeapprovals arenotneeded anymore.
TheRegulation contains amutual recognition clause fortestreports from other
countries.
7. Objective andrationale: TheaimofthisRegulation istheefficient useoftheradio
frequency spectrum andsafety ofmaritime transport.
8. Relevant documents: ThisRegulation isincluded intheSeries ofRegulations issued by
theTAC.
9. Proposed dateofadoption:
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:Tobedetermined
10. Final dateforcomments: 13January 1997
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: