WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.354
17July1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-3004)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: NETHERLANDS
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Ministry ofPosts andTelecommunications
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above: National Enquiry Point
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): Terminal equipment
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: T11-13
Terminal Equipment; Technical Regulations forConnection totheDutch Public
Switched Telephone Network (available inEnglish, 84pages).
6. Description ofcontent: Thedraftcomprises technical regulations forsingle andmultiple
systems relating to:
- repose state
- calldetection
- replying andterminating
- holding state
- dialling
- connecting
- "calling lineidentification"
- analogue anddigital signalling
- speech transmission, including:
(a) cordless telephones CTO, CT1, CT2
(b) cordless telephone DECT, coupling with thePSTR, insofar asnot
covered byCTR 10andCTR 11
- "handfree" telephones and"handsets"
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7. Objective andrationale: Theexisting technical regulations mainly dateback to1988.
Thedraft provides forcombining allexisting technical regulations inonedocument.
ThisdraftisalsoinlinewiththenewEuropean standards forterminal equipment, such
aspr-TBR 21,I-ETS 300677andI-ETS 300480.
8. Relevant documents: Directive 91/263/EEC, Telecommunications Provisions Act,
Terminal Equipment Declaration.
9. Proposed dateofadoption:
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:28July1997
10. Final dateforcomments: 14July1997
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: