WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.96.50
19March 1996
ORGANIZATION
(96-0974)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: SWEDEN
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Swedish National Road Administration
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers may beprovided inaddition, where applicable): Motor vehicles,
agricultural andforestry tractors, motor-driven vehicles, off-road vehicles
5. Titleandnumber ofpages ofthenotified document: Noise from Stationary Vehicles
6. Description ofcontent: Stationary testofnoise from vehicles inuseaccording to
81/334/EEC, 78/1015/EEC andISO5130 (testmethod) withnoise-limit values (dB(A))
atstationary testing fordifferent vehicle categories andmodel years.
7. Objective andrationale: Noise from road traffic isanenvironmental problem in
Sweden. Toreduce thisproblem theSwedish National Road Administration will
introduce astationary noise testforvehicles inuse. Theaimistoprevent vehicles with
defect mufflers from being usedinroadtraffic.
8. Relevant documents: 78/1015/EEC, 70/157/EEC andVVFS 1994:5.
9. Proposed dateofadoption andentry intoforce:
1August 1996 and1January 1997
10. Final dateforcomments: 17May1996
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: