. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ESP/17
31 May 2002
(02-3005)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:     SPAIN  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:       Subdirectorate-General for Infrastructures and Technical
Regulations.  Directorate-General for Telecommunications and Information Technologies.
State Secretariat for Telecommunications and the Information Society.  Ministry of Science
and Technology.                 
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):  The standard does not
provide direct coverage for any product, as it applies to installations; indirect coverage
extends to the equipment, parts and  components of such installations.                  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:    Technical Standard
on the Common Telecommunications Infrastructure for Access to Broadband
Telecommunications Services (6 pages, in Spanish).                  
6. Description of content:    This Technical Standard establishes the technical specifications
that must be satisfied by the Common Telecommunications Infrastructure (CTI) designed to
facilitate access to the broadband telecommunications services provided by cable
telecommunication network operators, fixed wireless access (FWA) operators and otherindividual licence-holders that are authorized to create and use public telecommunications
networks.  It describes the different component parts of the installation and determines the
minimum quality standards that are required in order for the services rendered by the
installation to be delivered without difficulty to the homes of the final service users.          
    
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:       
    The objective is to update the existing standard which is in force, contained in
Annex III of Royal Decree 279/1999 of 22 February (published in the Official Journal of
9 March 1999).  The update is a response to the need to include new services which have
become available since publication of the standard that is being replaced (fixed wireless
access service), drawing from the experience gained to adjust certain parameters to the state
of the art in this field.             G/TBT/N/ESP/17
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8. Relevant documents:       Royal Decree-Law 1/1998, of 27 Februrary, on Common
Infrastructure in Buildings for Access to Telecommunications Services (Official Journal of
28 February 1998) and Royal Decree 279/1999 of 22 February (Official Journal of 9 March
1999).                 
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }          
10. Final date for comments:     29 June 2002        
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:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/tris/webdata/2002128ES.doc