WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ESP/14
30 May 2002
(02-2998)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:     SPAIN    
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:     Ministry of Science and Technology        
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:           
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):     Refrigerants for cooling
installations.        
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:     Ministerial Order
Amending Supplementary Technical Instructions MI-IF002, MI-IF004 and MI-IF009 of the
Safety Regulation for Cooling Plants and Installations (5 pages, in Spanish).        
6. Description of content:     The Order authorizes a new refrigerant with characteristics that
have been duly tested by international bodies.         
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:   
Supplementary Instruction MI-IF002 Concerni ng the Regulation of Cooling Installations
establishes a list of authorized refrigerants.  Many of these refrigerants are ozone-depleting
substances whose production has been prohibited since 1 January 1995. The introduction of
new refrigerants, with characteristics that have been duly tested by international bodies, has
made it necessary to include them, in order fo r them to be authorized, in the Supplementary
Technical Instructions as these are exhaustive and have to be expressly modified.   
8. Relevant documents:     Safety Regulation for Plants and Installations        
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }  July 2002        
10. Final date for comments:     10 June 2002        
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: Ministry of
Science and Technology, P° de la Castellana, 160, 28071 MADRID.  Tel. 91 349 43 00,
e-mail: eam1@mcyt.es         