WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CHE/19
27 March 2002
(02-1583)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  SWITZERLAND
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Federal Office of Energy
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:   State Secretariat
for Economic Affairs, Effingerstrasse 1, CH 3003 Berne;  Tel.: +41 31 322 56 56,Fax: +41 31 322 56 00; E-mail: seco@seco.admin.ch .
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):   New passenger cars,
class M1, HS: 8703
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Energy Ordinance,
Annex 3.6:  Declaration of fuel use and CO 2 emissions of new passenger cars (5 pages,
German and French).
6. Description of content:   Introduction of a mandatory energy efficiency label for new
passenger cars including a relative comparison of fuel use and CO 2 emission based on the
EC directive 1999/94/EC.  Requirement of indication of the fuel economy category for eachcar model.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Environmental protection: improvement of fuel economy and, in recognition of the
importance of passengers cars as a source of CO 2 emissions, decrease of CO 2 emissions by
energy savings in transport sector based on behavioural changes in car buyers choice.  The
measure increases the demand for more efficient cars and improves the incentive of the car
suppliers to provide fuel efficient models.
8. Relevant documents:   Energy Law of 26 June 1998 and Energy Ordinance of
7 December 1999
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }1 July 2002
10. Final date for comments:  14 May 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:           