. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.00/404
11 September 2000
(00-3497)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED KINGDOM
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Department of the Environment Transport & the Regions
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):   Motor Vehicles:
Passenger vehicles (category M1) and light goods vehicles (category N1);  certain other
goods vehicles with a design gross weight not exceeding 5,500 kg; certain 3 wheeled
vehicles having a maximum unladen  weight of more than 410kg.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Annexes A and B to
the Single Vehicle Approval (SVA) Inspection Manual (13 pages, in English)
6. Description of content:   The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2000 are being
notified concurrently.  Schedule 3 to those regulations prescribes the basic technical
standards required to gain single vehicle approval; and Schedule 4 prescribes enhancedstandards applicable in certain circumstances.
The SVA inspection manual is a non-statutory guide for testers on how to conduct the tests.
Annex A thereto lists the non-European standards judged to be acceptable alternatives to the
basic standards prescribed in Schedule 3 to the Approval regulations; Annex B lists the
acceptable alternatives to the enhanced standards in Schedule 4.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Article 1 of Directive 70/156/EEC excludes vehicles approved singly from the type-
approval regime otherwise applicable.  The proposed annexes to the inspection manual will,
in conjunction with the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2000, ensure that vehicles
without a valid type-approval meet high safety, environmental and anti-theft standards
before they enter service.  Evidence of comp liance with any of the specified standards will
obviate the need for inspection of the item(s) in question.
8. Relevant documents:   Draft Annexes A and B to the Single Vehicle Approval (SVA)
Inspection Manual
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }January 2001G/TBT/Notif.00/404
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10. Final date for comments:   15 November 2000
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [     ] or address, e-mail and telefax
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