. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/TPKM/3
19 September 2002
(02-4998)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERROITORY OF
TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of
Economic Affairs (BSMI, MOEA)          
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 [ X ], 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):
Electrical and Electronic products (HS Chapters 84, 85, 90 and 94).
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:
Two Public Notices of MOEA for electrical  and electronic products (HS Chapters 84, 85,
90 and 94).  (Chinese, 23 and 15 pages).          
6. Description of content:
The proposed regulations revised the inspection standards and conformity assessment
procedures for the electrical and electronic products that are already subject to mandatory
inspection.  The purpose of this revision is to bring the measures, especially the safety
requirements, in consistency so as to facilitate  trade.  The dual-track approach of conformity
assessment procedures will be retained with the following changes.
For the Registration of Product Certification Scheme:
- The change of applicable modules for certain products, which is proposed to be effective
from January 1,  2003.
For the bath inspection:
- The change of inspection standard (CNS 3765) to the most recent version (1999 version),
which is one of the safety standards used for type testing under the registration of Product
Certification Scheme.  This change is proposed to be effective from 1 January, 2003 for thepurpose of moving towards a type-approved batch inspection.G/TBT/N/TPKM/3
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- Starting from 1 January 2004, products that follow batch inspection will be required to
pass type approval in advance before making application for batch inspection.  The testing
standards of type approval will be the same as those under the Registration of Product
Certification Scheme.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To streamline procedures of commodity inspection
8. Relevant documents:   Please see section 5.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 January 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2003, 1 January 2004 (with the part
of type-approved batch inspection)
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from date of notification
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:
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point, Information, Center, Bureau of Standards, Metrology and
Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs, 4 Chinan Road, Section 1, Taipei, 100 Taiwan.Telephone: (886-2) 2343-1978, 2343-1985   Telefax: (886-2) 3343-5173, 2343-1986
Email: tbtenq@bsni.gov.tw