G/TBT/N/EGY/375  
14 November 2023  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  EGYPT  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality  
16 Tadreeb El -Modarrebeen St., Ameriya, Cairo - Egypt  
E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg /eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  
Website: http://www.eos.org.eg  
Tel.: 0222845528  
Fax: 0222845504  
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 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Concrete 
and concrete products (ICS code(s): 91.100.30); Construction of railways (ICS code(s): 
93.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft of the 
Egyptian Standard ES for "Railway applications - Track - Concrete sleepers and bearers – 
Part 6: Design"; (66 page(s), in Arabic)  
6. Description of content:  This draft Standard provides particular design guidance in the 
following areas:  
— derivation of characteristic loads and test loads;  
— calculation of characteristic and test bending moments.  
The aim of this standard is to give guidance for the preparation of all data to be given by 
the purchaser to the supplier in accordance with Parts from 1 to 5. It applies to gauges 1 
000 mm, 1 435 mm, 1 668 mm as well as to all lengths of sleepers and bearers.  
This standard gives special criteria for the design of concrete sle epers and bearers as 
track components.  
All track parameters to be taken into account for the design of sleepers and bearers are 
detailed in this standard. Information is given on these parameters so that they can be 
used as inputs for the design calculatio n process. It is the responsibility of the purchaser 
to calculate or determine all track parameters used in this standard.  
This standard gives guidance for the design calculation process. It explains how 
experience and calculation can be combined to use de sign parameters.  G/TBT/N/EGY/375  
 
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  This standard gives examples of numerical data that can be used when applying Clauses 
4 to 6 according to the state of the art.  
Worth mentioning is that this draft standard is technically identical with EN 13230 -6:2020  
7. Objective and ra tionale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Safety requirements; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
EN 13230 -6/2020  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality  
Address: 16 Tadreeb El -Modarrebeen St.  
Ameriya, Cairo - Egypt  
E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg /eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  
Website: http://www.eos.org.eg