. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/FRA/2
20 February 2001
(01-0840)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  French
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   FRANCE
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Directorate for Regional Action and Small and Medium Industry,
Subdirectorate of Metrology
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):   Taxi meters
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Order Concerning
Taxi Meters
6. Description of content:
This draft order annuls and replaces several earlier decrees and orders concerning
the manufacture, approval, installation and inspection of taxi meters, except with regard to
EEC control of mechanical instruments for which the earlier decrees and orders mentionedabove transpose Directive 77/95/EEC.
It defines the instruments and their accessories.  It establishes requirements for their
manufacture and installation in taxis.
It defines control operations to be applied to new and installed instruments and the
requirements set for the bodies carrying out the operations provided for by the regulations
as well as taxi meter holders.
It introduces the notion of a metrological log-book (record of an installed
instrument's history).
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:   
This draft brings up to date requirements for the manufacture of these instruments
to take new technology into account.
It introduces new control operations and, following the establishment of a quality
assurance system, gives priority to private bodies for carrying them out;  such operations
replace controls carried out directly by civil servants.  These bodies are monitored by theauthorities.G/TBT/N/FRA/2
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8. Relevant documents:
Council Directive 77/95/EEC of 21 December 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the
member States relating to taxi meters.
Decree No. 78-363 of 13 March 1978 concerning regulations for the category of measuring
equipment:  taxi meters, amended by  Decree No. 86-1071 of 24 September 1986,
concerning the decentralization of procedures for the control of measuring equipment.
Order of 21 August 1980 concerning the manufacture, model approval, installation and
basic inspection of taxi meters, amended by Orders of 21 October 1986 and 2 March 1988.
Order of 13 January 1981 concerning periodic checks and monitoring of taxi meters.
Order of 17 February 1988 establishing conditions for the manufacture, approval and
installation of electronic taxi meters.
Draft Order concerning the control of measuring equipment (Notification No. 97/181F).
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:March 2001
1 July 2001
10. Final date for comments:   28 February 2001
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [     ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
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