. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ESP/16
30 May 2002
(02-2995)
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 the Reception, Adaptation and
Distribution of Sound and Television Broadcasting Signals Originating from Terrestrial and
Satellite Broadcasts (12 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
receive, adapt and distribute sound and television broadcasting signals originating fromterrestrial and satellite broadcasts.  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 I 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 (digital terrestrial television),
drawing from the experience gained to adjust cer tain parameters to the state of the art in this
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8. Relevant documents:     Royal Decree-Law 1/1998 of 27 February 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/2002127ES.doc