. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/TTO/4
19 February 2001
(01-0789)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, 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):   Safety of toys –Part 1:
Safety aspects related to mechanical and physical properties – ISO 8124-1: 2000
(ICS 97.200.50)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   S a f e t y  o f  T o y s  –
Part 1:  Safety Aspects Related to Mechanical and Physical Properties (78 pages, in English)
6. Description of content:   The requirements in this part of TTS/ISO 8124 apply to all toys,
i.e. any product or material designed or clearly intended for use in play by children under
14 years of age.  They are applicable to a toy as it is initially received by the consumer and,in addition, they apply after a toy is subjected to reasonably foreseeable conditions of
normal use and abuse unless specifically noted otherwise.
The requirements of this part of TTS/ISO 8124 specify acceptable criteria for structural
characteristics of toys, such as shape, size, contour, spacing (e.g. rattles, small parts, sharp
points and edges, hinge-line clearances) as well as acceptable criteria for properties peculiar
to certain categories of toys (e.g. maximum kinetic energy values for not-resilient-tipped
projectiles, minimum tip angles for certain ride-on toys).
This part of TTS/ISO 8124 specifies requirements and test methods for toys intended for
use by children in various age groups from birth to 14 years.  The requirements vary
according to the age group for which a particular toy is intended  The requirements for a
particular age group reflect the nature of hazards and expected mental and/or physical
abilities of the child to cope with them.
This part of TTS/ISO 8124 also requires that appropriate warnings and/or instructions for
use be given on certain toys or their packaging.  Due to linguistic problems that may occur
in different countries, the wording of these warnings and instructions is not specified but
given as general information in Annex C.  It should be noted that different legal
requirements exist in many countries with regard to such marking.G/TBT/N/TTO/4
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This part of TTS/ISO 8124 does not purport to cover or include every conceivable potential
hazard of a particular toy or a toy category.  Except for labelling requirements indicating the
functional hazards and the age range for which a toy is intended, this part of TTS/ISO 8124
has no requirements for those characteristics of toys that represent an inherent andrecognized hazard that is integral to the function of a toy.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Compulsory status has been recommended to prevent fraud, deception, misleading,
labelling, inferior products (toys) and to give adequate information to the consumer or user.
8. Relevant documents:   TTS/ISO 8124-1: 2000 – Safety of toys – Part 1:  Safety aspects
related to mechanical and physical properties
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }On a date to be notified by the Minister towhom responsibility for trade and industry is
assigned in a Notice to be published in the
Trinidad and Tobago Gazette as required by
the Standards Act
10. Final date for comments:   20 April 2001
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body: