. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.465
5 October 1999
(99-4127)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   MALAYSIA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Department of Standards Malaysia
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:   Standards Development Unit, SIRIM Bhd
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [ X], 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):   Paints and varnishes
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Methods of Test for
Paints and Varnishes:  Part E3:  Resistance to Impact (Falling-Weight Test) (First Revision)(In English)
6. Description of content:   This draft Malaysian Standard is equivalent to ISO 6272:  1993 in
technical content.  It is one of a series dealing with the sampling and testing of paints,
varnishes and related products.  This Malaysian Standard specifies a test method for
evaluating the resistance of a dry film of paint, varnish or related product to cracking or
peeling from a substrate when it is subjected to a deformation caused by a falling weight,
dropped under standard conditions.
The method described can be applied:
(a) either as a pass/fail test, the test being carried out from one drop height and with 
specified mass, so as to test compliance with a particular specification;  or
(b) as a classification test, to determine the minimum mass and/or drop height for 
which the coating cracks or peels from its substrate by gradually increasing the drop
height and/or the mass.
This draft Malaysian Standard supersedes MS 133:  Part E3:  1973
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Falling-weight test
8. Relevant documents:
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }To be decidedG/TBT/Notif.99.465
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10. Final date for comments:   31 October 1999
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:
WTO Enquiry Point
SIRIM Berhad
1 Persiaran Dato' Menteri
P.O. Box 7035, Section 240911 Shah Alam
MALAYSIA
E-mail: isd_resource@sirim.my
Fax: 03-5567114