WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.98.361
21 July 1998
(98-2889)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
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:
General Secretariat of the Interministerial Committee for Questions of European Economic
Cooperation, 2 boulevard Diderot, 75012 Paris
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:
Interministerial Director for Standards, 22 rue Monge, 75005 Paris
Sub-Directorate of Industrial Safety, Gas and Pressure Appliances Department,
22 rue Monge, 75005 Paris
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):  Steam or gas pressure
appliances
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Order Concerning
Operational Monitoring of Safety Valves on Steam or Gas Pressure Appliances.  (4 pages)  
        
6. Description of content:  The purpose of the Order is to establish the conditions for the
operational monitoring of safety valves on steam or gas pressure appliances.          
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The
purpose of the monitoring is to check that safety valves provide proper and lasting pressure
relief in the appliances they protect.
The draft Order updates the older texts, which were ill-suited to current operating
conditions.
This draft Order does not concern the design, manufacture or marketing of safety
valves.  Such design, manufacture or marketing conditions will be governed soley by the
texts incorporating Directive 97/23/EC on the approximation of the laws of the member
States concerning pressure equipment.
8. Relevant documents:  The draft Order is attached.          
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  October 1998.G/TBT/Notif.98.361
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10. Final date for comments:  End September 1998.          
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point  [  ] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body:  The text is attached.