WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.61
24 February 1999
(99-0710)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  MALAYSIA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Standards, Malaysia          
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:  Standards Development Unit, SIRIM Bhd
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):  Timber          
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Code of Practice for
Structural Use of Timber:  Part 1:  Permissible Stress Design, Materials and Workmanship:
Section 3:  Glued Laminated Ti mber.  (31 pages, in English)
6. Description of content:  This section of draft Malaysian Standard specifies the grade stresses
for strength classes and individual species, grade stresses for horizontally and vertically
glued laminated timber and properties of glued laminated timber as flexural, compressionand tension members.  This draft Malaysian Standard is intended to be published separately
and was prepared based on the information adapted from BS 5268, Part 2;  BS EN 338,
1995;  BS EN 384, 1995;  BS EN 386, 1995;  BS 5756, 1997;  BS 6399 and CP3, 1972.
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Structural use of timber          
8. Relevant documents:           
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: } To be decided          
10. Final date for comments:  31 March 1999          
11.Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body:  WTO Enquiry Point
SIRIM Berhad
P.O: Box 7035
40911 Shah Alam
SelangorFax:  (603) 556 7114