WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ESP/13
11 April 2002
(02-1949)
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:  Technical General Secretariat.  Ministry of Development.
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):
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Royal Decree
Approving the Earthquake-Resistant Construction Standard: General Information and
Construction (NCSE 2001), (100 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   Update of existing regulations.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
This Draft Royal Decree establishes the criteria to be met in Spanish territory which take
seismic action into consideration in the design, construction, alteration and preservation ofbuildings and, subsidiarily, in civil engineering.
8. Relevant documents:   Earthquake-resistant construction standard: general information and
construction (NCSE 94).
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }May 2002
10. Final date for comments:   April 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: