. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/BEL/10
29 March 2001
(01-1547)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  French
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   BELGIUM
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of the Interior
Direction générale de la Police Générale du Royaume
Police administrativeRue Royale 56
B – 1000 Bruxelles
TP:  +32 2 500 21 11
TF:  +32 2 500 25 29
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):   Vehicles for the
transport of valuables
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Royal Order on the
Technical Characteristics and Approval of Vehicles for the Transport of Valuables Used by
Security Firms and Internal Security Services
6. Description of content:  Vehicles for the transport of valuables must be approved by the
Minister of the Interior, after having received the opinion of the Commission on the
transport of valuables.  This Order establis hes the procedure to follow in order to seek
approval.  Vehicles for the transport of valuables must possess certain technicalcharacteristics and are checked by the Commission on the transport of valuables of the
Ministry of the Interior to ensure that they meet the relevant standards.  The Commission
will issue a reasoned decision, on the basis of which the Minister of the Interior will decide
whether or not to grant a certificate of approval.
This Royal Order incorporates the provisions of the Royal Order of
28 February 1997 on the technical characteristics and approval of vehicles for the transport
of valuables used by security firms and internal security services.
However, a number of the provisions of the previous Royal Order have been
refined.  The changes mainly concern standards relating to the armour plating of vehicles,
their technical characteristics (Article 1), external markings (Article 12), and the powergiven to the Ministry of the Interior to ensure that vehicles for the transport of valuables
comply with the provisions of  the Royal Order (Article 14).G/TBT/N/BEL/10
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To ensure the secure transport of valuable s, the Belgian authorities have opted for a
strategy which must above all act as a deterrent and result in making any attack on security
vehicles more difficult for potential attackers.  To improve the security of transport and
reduce the risk of attacks on security vehicles, vehicles must be suitably manufactured andequipped to take account of the inherent risk for any vehicle used to transport valuables and
of the technical characteristics required to ensure maximum security in every such vehicle.
To this end, the Belgian authorities have defined the technical characteristics
specific to each type of vehicle used for the transport of valuables.
8. Relevant documents:
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }60 days
10. Final date for comments:
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:  CIBELNOR