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ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.10
12 January 1999
(99-0073)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  THE NETHERLANDS
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Justice.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:  National Enquiry Point - EC WTO-TBT Enquiry Point
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):  Technical regulations
monitoring the security of passengers, luggage and other goods which are taken on board
aircraft
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Bill Amending the
Aviation Act Concerning Airfield Security.
6. Description of content: This bill amends section 3A of Chapter 4 of the Aviation Act
concerning airfield security. This amendment aims to assign security tasks with respect to
passengers and their luggage to those running airfields and with respect to cargo to airlinecompanies, without affecting the adequate monitoring of these tasks by and on behalf of the
Minister of Justice. At the same time, the existing security levy, imposed by the government
to owners or keepers of aircraft in order to control the cost of monitoring by the staff of
private security firms contracted for this purpose, will be lifted.
The bill also contains security regulations of a technical nature, such as in Article 37b, c, d,
h, k, n, r.
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
Following a number of developments, it is desirable to change the way in which security
tasks are executed. These developments concern the increasing intensity in air traffic, the
increasing focus on security regulations at international level and the need to offer
differentiated security activities. Given the increasing intensity in air traffic, those runningairports attach great importance to improving the efficiency of the running procedure. In
this respect, it is useful to integrate security activities into this process as much as possible.
8. Relevant documents:
- Annex 17 (Security) to the convention on international civil aviation, concluded in
Chicago on 7 December 1944 (Bulletin of Acts  and Decrees H 165):  "International
standards and recommended practices SECURITY safeguarding international civil aviation
against acts of unlawful interference Annex 17 to the convention on international civil
aviation, sixth edition, March 1997".G/TBT/Notif.99.10
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- ECAC Document 30 (Manual of ECAC recommendations and resolutions relating
to facilitation and security matters, ECAC .CEAC Doc. no. 30, part II, seventh edition,
December 1997.
- Aviation Act (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees 1996, 26)
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 January 2000
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2001
10. Final date for comments:  18 March 1999
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body: