WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CUB/1
13 November 2001
(01-5701)
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:   CUBA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Foreign Trade (MINCEX) / Ministry of Metallurgical,
Mechanical and Electronics Industries (SIME)
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [     ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:   Technical
Regulation adopted.
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Air conditioning
machinery and equipment, classified under tariff subheadings 8415.1000 (window or wall
types) and 8415.8200 and 8415.8300 (split systems) of the Harmonized Commodity
Description and Coding System.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  MINCEX/SIME Joint
Resolution of 16 July 2001 (four pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:  Establishes the minimum technical requirements for equipment,
whether imported or produced by the domestic industry, known as air conditioningmachines and classified under tariff subheadings 8415.1000 (window or wall types) and
8415.8200 and 8415.8300 (split systems). These technical requirements cover
tropicalization treatment, ecological concerns, energy consumption, permissible noise level,
voltage and frequency.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:   
Compilation of the technical standards for the above-mentioned products, reduction
of the environmental impacts on these products  and of their impact on the environment and
establishment of the parameters for energy efficiency and power.
8. Relevant documents:   To be published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Upon issue.
Proposed date of entry into force:  16 July 2001
10. Final date for comments:   Not applicable.
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of other body:  Available in
Spanish.