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4 June 2020  
(20-3996) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  GEORGIA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Market Surveillance Agency at the Ministry of Economic and 
Sustainable Development of Georgia  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
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):  Machinery;  
interchangeable devices; safety components; lifting equipment; chains, ropes and belts; 
removable mechanical transmission devices; partly completed machinery.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  
Technical  Regulation on "machinery" approved by Decree of the Government of Georgia on 
6 February 2020 No.85 (68 page(s), in Georgian)  
6. Description of conte nt: The manufacturer of the machinery or its authorized 
representative is obliged to carry out a risk analysis for determine the relevant health and 
safety requirements  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Association agreement between Georgian and the EU ( DC FTA part);  
• Georgian law "Code of Product Safety and Free Movement of Goods"  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  6 February 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  - G/TBT/N/GEO/111  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Georgian National Agency for  Standards and Metrology (GeoSTM)  
WTO/TBT National Enquiry Point of Georgia  
N67 Chargali str. Tbilisi. 0178, Georgia  
Tel:(+995 32) 261 73 65;  
Fax:(+995 32) 261 35 00;  
E-mail: nep.tbt@geostm.ge  
 