. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/SWE/16
30 October 2002
(02-5985)
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:   SWEDEN
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Vägverket (Swedish National Road Administration)
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:
Kommerskollegium (Swedish National Board of Trade)
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:   Swedish National
Road Administration’s regulation on private cars, lorries, buses, coaches and their trailers
(284 pages, in Swedish)
6. Description of content:   The draft regulation specifies requirements on the design and
equipment of private cars, lorries, buses, coaches and their trailers. The new regulation
replaces the existing regulation VVFS 1994:5. The basic rules regarding design andequipment of vehicles in the former Vehicle Decree (1972:595) and the sections regarding
design and equipment of vehicles in the Military Road Traffic Decree (1974:97), the Road
Traffic Ordinance for the Fire Brigade’s emergency service during education and in the
state of alert (1995:137) and the Ordinance concer ning vehicles in international road traffic
in Sweden (1987:27) have been incorporated in the regulation.
Previous national requirements are replaced by the corresponding technical provisions in
EC-directives. The requirements now also apply to equipment voluntarily mounted to avehicle. The regulation contains provisions regarding new as well as old vehicles, which
have been brought into use with regard to th e transitional provisions given in the Vehicle
Decree.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
The aim is to better adapt the regulation to existing EC-directives and ECE-regulations
concerning the construction of vehicles, and to give it a linguistic and legal update. The new
regulation has been prepared as a result of a new Vehicle Act (2002:574) and a new VehicleOrdinance (under notification according to Directive 98/34/EG), which are being introduced
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8. Relevant documents:  Vehicle Act (2002:574)
Vehicle Ordinance (under notification according to Directive 98/34/EC)
9. Proposed date of adoption:  20 March 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 May 2003
10. Final date for comments:   10 January 2003
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:           