WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/NLD/63 
14 May 2004  
 
(04-2151) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE NETHERLANDS 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of  Transport and Public Works 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   National Enquiry 
Point – EC WTO TBT Enquiry Point 
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 app licable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Motor vehicles and parts 
thereof 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:   Proposal for a Decree 
of … amending the Vehicle Rules in connecti on with a number of amendments relating to 
devices improving the field of vision in commercial vehicles.  
6. Description of content:   The Decree incorporates a number of amendments into the 
Vehicle Rules with regard to the obligation to provide a device improving the field of vision 
that gives drivers of heavy commercial vehicles a better view of vulnerable road users.  The 
group of vehicles to which the obligation app lies has been amended to commercial vehicles 
with a maximum permitted mass exceeding 3500 kg. , other than buses, coaches and camper 
vans, that were commissioned after 31 Dece mber 1977.  Commercial vehicles with the 
driver’s seat on the right-hand side of the vehicle must have the device improving the field of vision on the left-hand side of the vehicle, instead of on the right-hand side. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The above-mentioned obligation is restricted to vehicles commissioned after 
31 December 1977, because there is often no suitable place to fit the device improving the field of vision on vehicles commissioned before this date.  In addition, the proposed 
amendment serves to clarify the regulation. 
8. Relevant documents:   Vehicle Rules (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees 1994, 450). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  15 September 2004 
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 November 2004 
10. Final date for comments:   28 July 2004 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:        
 