. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/FRA/27
13 October 2003
(03-5405)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  French
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  FRANCE
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:
Ministry of the Interior
Directorate of Civil Defence and Safety
Place Beauvau75800 PARIS Cedex 08
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 [  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):  Heating and ventilation
systems, water-heating equipment and fire safety systems
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Order
Approving Provisions Supplementing and Amending the Safety Regulations Governing Fire
and Panic Hazards in Buildings Open to the Public.  Special Provisions  (4 pages).
6. Description of content:  This draft Regulation deals with the calculation of multimedia
room user numbers and covers heating and ventilation systems, water-heating equipment
and fire safety systems installed in establishments open to the elderly and disabled (type J
establishments). It also outlines the conditions under which marquees, big tops, tents and
similar single-storey structures may be altered or extended.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
This draft Order aims to:
- Integrate technical innovations and behavioural development;
- improve the readability of the text by adapting it to changes in practical application;
- ensure consistency in these areas with regulations on other branches of economic
activity.
8. Relevant documents:   None
9. Proposed date of adoption:  November 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  December 2003
10. Final date for comments:  60 daysG/TBT/N/FRA/27
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11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of other body:
National enquiry point
CINORTECH (National Information Centre on Standards and Technical Regulations)
AFNOR (French Standards Association)11, avenue Francis de Pressensé
93571 SAINT-DENIS-LA PLAINE Cedex