WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.00/141
15 March 2000
(00-1050)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   SWITZERLAND
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Federal Office of Transport, CH-3003 Bern
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:   State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco), Berne
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):   Recreational crafts
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Modification of the
Ordinance on Navigation on Swiss Waters (Ordinance on Internal Navigation)
(17 pages, French)
6. Description of content:   For crafts covered by EC directive 94/25/EC, most of today’s
technical requirements for recreational crafts will be replaced by the regulations of the EC
directive. Since the actual version of the directive either contains no environmentalrequirements or does not meet the Swiss ones, the existing Swiss regulations with regard to
the protection of the environment will be maintained. The conformity assessment
procedures of the ordinance will be harmonized with the EC directive.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Elimination of existing trade barriers.
8. Relevant documents:   Federal Law on internal navigation.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  July/August 2000
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2001
10. Final date for comments:   15 May 2000
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:           