. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ARG/41
25 April 2002
(02-2366)
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:  ARGENTINA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:  Secretariat of Transport
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Web site
addresses, if available) of the agency or  authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification if different from above:  idem  National 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):  Passenger and goods
transport vehicles.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Secretariat of
Transport Resolution No. 128/2001  (41 pages in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   Approval of the Protocol on the Technical Specifications for on-
board operations recording devices fitted in passenger and goods transport vehicles coming
under national jurisdiction.  Certification of these devices by the Faculty of Engineering of
the University of Buenos Aires, the National Technological University or the NationalInstitute of Industrial Technology (INTI), at the manufacturers' choice.  Revocation of
Secretariat of Transport Resolution No. 135/94.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Although Secretariat of Transport Resolution N o. 135/94 represented a step forward in this
area by taking the technological advances of recent years into account, it needs to be
updated in order to bring the required parameters into line with international standards.
8. Relevant documents:  Law 24,449 and Decree 779/95.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 April  2002 (Article 2) and 1 May 2002 (Article 3).
10. Final date for comments:G/TBT/N/ARG/41
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11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of another body:  
Focal Point of the Argentine Republic
National Directorate of Domestic Trade (DNCI)
Avda. J. A. Roca 651, 4th floor, Sector 22
(1322) Buenos Aires
Tel.:  54 11 4349-4037
Fax:  54 11 4349-4038
E-mail:  vcamal@secind.mecon.gov.ar