. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/TPKM/15 
21 July 2004 
 (04-3149) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English 
   
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF 
TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:         
The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection Ministry of Economic Affairs 4 Chinan Road, Section 1, Taipei, 100, Taiwan 
 
Telephone: (886-2) 2343-1906 Fax:  (886-2) 3343-3991 E-mail:  by.liou@bsmi.gov.tw 
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 [ X], 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):   Information Technology 
Equipment that is already subject to EMC inspection requirements.  (HS Chapters 84, 85 
and 90) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:   Public Notice under 
the Commodity Inspection Act (12 pages, in Chinese) 
6. Description of content:   The Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and 
Matsu intends to regulate the safety requ irements for Information Technology (IT) 
equipment that are already subject to EMC requi rements.  As of July 1, 2005, all such 
products must further conform to the safety requirements when imported or marketed.  The 
inspection requirements are CNS standards that have been harmonized with relevant IEC or 
CISPR standards. This notice also provi des the applicable conformity assessment 
procedures.  
The notice covers a total of 45 items of IT e quipment, 18 being subject to Declaration of 
Conformity scheme and 25 being subject to a dual-track approach (Registration of Product 
Certification or Type-approved Ba tch Inspection).  The rest 2 items, being static converters 
for automatic data processing machine and switching power supplies, are subject to 
Registration of Product Certification (a ch ange of the EMC conformity assessment 
procedure for these two items from currently Decl aration of Conformity to Registration of 
Product Certification is also proposed as a result of a review of the effectiveness the conformity assessment procedure applied). G/TBT/N/TPKM/15 
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer protection 
8. Relevant documents:   The Commodity Inspection Act, CNS 13438, 14757-2, 14336, 
14843-1 and 14843-2 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  15 September 2004 
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 July 2005 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from date of notification 
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:        
 WTO/TBT Enquiry Point  
 The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection   Ministry of Economic Affairs 
 4 Chinan Road, Section 1, Taipei, 100, Taiwan 
  Telephone: (886-2) 3343-5115  Fax:  (886-2) 2343-1804  E-mail:  tbtenq@bsmi.gov.tw