G/TBT/N/USA/1712  
1 April 2021  
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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:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) [1741]  
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 i f different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other  [X]:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Boeing 
Model 787 -8 airplane; non -structural glass in the passenger cabin; Aircraft and space 
vehicles in general (ICS 49.02 0), Passenger and cabin equipment (ICS 49.095)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Special 
Conditions: Lufthansa Technik, Boeing Model 787 -8 Airplane; Installation of Large, Non -
Structural Glass in the Passenger Cabin (3 pa ge(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Final special conditions; request for comments - These special 
conditions are issued for the Boeing Model 787 -8 airplane. This airplane as modified by 
Lufthansa Technik, will have a novel or unusual design fea ture when compared to the 
state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport category 
airplanes. This design feature is the installation of large, non -structural glass in the 
passenger cabin. The applicable airworthiness regulation s do not contain adequate or 
appropriate safety standards for this design feature. These special conditions contain the 
additional safety standards that the Administrator considers necessary to establish a level 
of safety equivalent to that established by the existing airworthiness standards.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
86 Federal Register (FR) 14810, 19 March 2021; Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Part 25:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-03-19/html/2021 -05447.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-03-19/pdf/2021 -05447.pdf  
This final special conditions; request for comments is identified by Docket Number FAA -
2021-0203. The Docket Folder is available on Regulations .gov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA -2021-0203/document  and provides access to 
primary documents as well as comments received. Documents are also accessible from 
Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number. WTO Members and their stakeholders G/TBT/N/USA/1712  
 
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  are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT Enquiry Point . Comments receive d by the 
USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members and their stakeholders will be shared with the 
regulator and will also be submitted to the Docket  on Regulations.gov if received withi n 
the comment period.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  19 March 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  19 March 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  3 May 2021  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/USA/21_2425_00_e.pdf