. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/SWE/18
30 October 2002
(02-5993)
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 motorcycles (82 pages, in Swedish)
6. Description of content:   The draft regulation specifies requirements on the design and
equipment of motorcycles. The new regulation replaces the existing regulation VVFS
1999:39. The basic rules regarding design and equipment of vehicles in the former Vehicle
Decree (1972:595) and the sections regarding design and equipment of vehicles in theMilitary Road Traffic Decree (1974:97) and the Ordinance concerning vehicles in
international road traffic in Sweden (1987:27) have been incorporated in the regulations.
Previous national requirements are replaced by the corresponding technical provisions in
EC-directives. The requirements now also apply to equipment voluntarily mounted to a
vehicle. 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. The regulation has been given a linguistic and legal update.
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 concerning 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 Vehicle Ordinance (under
notification according to directive 98/34/EC) which are being introduced in Sweden.
8. Relevant documents: Vehicle Act (2002:574)
Vehicle Ordinance (under notification according to directive
98/34/EC)G/TBT/N/SWE/18
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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:           