. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/PHL/31
20 June 2003
(03-3312)
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:   PHILIPPINES
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Bureau of Product Standards, Department of Trade and Industry
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):   Safety Glass for Road
Vehicles
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Philippine
National Standard (DPNS) 130:2003 – Safety glass for road vehicles - Specification
(54 pages, in English)
6. Description of content:   This draft Philippine National Standard specifies the minimum
requirements, limits of allowable defects, and the test methods for safety glass for road
vehicles.  Safety glass described herein is limited to tempered and laminated glass.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
This standard supersedes PNS 187:1988 (Test Methods for Safety Glass for Automotive
Application) and PNS 130:1988 (Specification for Safety Glass for Automotive
Application).  The two standards were combined to be more user friendly.
8. Relevant documents:  In the revision of this standard the following references were
considered:
JASO M 501-1994 – Japanese Automobile Standard;  JIS R 3211-1998 – Safety Glazing
materials for road vehicles;  JIS R 3212-1998 – Test method of safety glazing materials forroad vehicles;  PNS 1249:1994/ISO 2859-1:1989 – Sampling procedures for inspection by
attributes Part 1: Sampling plans indexed by acceptable quality level (AQL) for lot-by-lot
inspection;  Economic Commission for Europe – Regulation No. 43:1987 – “Uniform
Provisions concerning the approval of safety glazing and glazing materials;  ISO 3538:1977
– “Road vehicles – Safety glazing materials – Test methods for optical propertiesG/TBT/N/PHL/31
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  October 2003
Proposed date of entry into force: Fifteen (15) days after publication in the
Official Gazette or newspaper of general circulation.
10. Final date for comments:   17 August 2003
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:
Bureau of Product Standards (WTO-TBT Enquiry Point), 3/F Trade and Industry Building,
361 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines;
Tel. (632) 890-5227; Fax No.: (632- 890-5131;  E-mail:  bps@dti.dti.gov.ph