WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.669
13October 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-4407)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: NETHERLANDS
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Ministry ofTransport andPublic Works
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above: National enquiry point
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): Safety belts, fuelandoil,
IFRinstruments, VFR andIFRradio equipment, navigational equipment, aircraft
identification equipment forairtraffic control, anti-icing devices, night-flight
instruments, manually-operated fireextinguishing devices, signs designating crew areas,
signs designating emergency exits.
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Regulation Governing
thePreparation andOperation ofTour Flights
6. Description ofcontent: Article 8A,paragraph 2,oftheAviation Actprovides forthe
possibility ofrules onpreparation andoperation oftourflights being issued byorin
accordance withOrders inCouncil intheinterests ofpublic safety. Article 114ofthe
Regulation Governing Aviation Monitoring instructs theMinister ofTransport, Public
Works andWater Management toestablish rules inthisregard aswellasequipment
requirements relating toaircraft fortourflights. Subsequently, further implementation is
instructed forthispurpose inthepresent draft Regulation. According totheDutch
Government, thedraft Regulation stated inpoint 5probably contains technical
regulations. Anindicative summary ofthetechnical regulations appears below:
- Article 5a:cockpit seats must befitted with three orfourpoint connection
safety belts(established on5September 1990);
- Article 6:there must besufficient fuelandoilonboard theaircraft forthe
duration oftheflight (established on5September 1990);G/TBT/Notif.97.669
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6. Description ofcontent: (cont'd)
- Article 7:anumber ofinstruments must beprovided onboard IFRflights, and
these must offer aclear display tothepilots (established 5September 1990);
- Article 8:special purpose radio equipment must beinstalled forVFR andIFR
flights. Such equipment forIFRflights must, asof1January 2001, atleast
conform tothestandards inSection I,Book IofAnnex 10oftheICAO Treaty
(established on5September 1990, thesecond paragraph isdated
10February 1997);
- Article 9:navigational equipment must bepresent onboard theaircraft. This
equipment mustatleastconform tothestandards established inSection I,Book I
ofAnnex 10oftheICAO Treaty (established on5September 1990);
- Article 10:on-board aircraft identification equipment forairtraffic control must
bepresent. Suchequipment mustatleastconform tothestandards established in
Section I,Book I,Annex 10oftheICAO Treaty (established on
5September 1990);
- Article 11:theaircraft must befitted withanti-icing devices (established on
5September 1990);
- Article 12: requirements relating tonight-flight instruments -supplementary
requirements tothose stated inArticle 7(established on5September 1990);
- Article 13:manually-operated fireextinguishing equipment ofanapproved type
must bepresent onboard aircraft (established on5September 1990). See
point 10forfurther information;
- Article 14:"nosmoking" andcrew access areasigns must bepresent onboard
theaircraft (established on5September 1990);
- Article 15: requirements relating toemergency exitsigns (established on
5September 1990).
7. Objective andrationale: Ifthedraft amendment oftheRegulation contains quantitative
import restrictions ormeasures ofequal effect within themeaning oftheAgreement on
Technical Barriers toTrade thensuchmeasures arejustified intheinterests ofpublic
health andsafety andinorder toprotect human life.
Reference ismade inanumber ofprovisions oftheRegulation toICAO
Regulations governing airtraffic. These Regulations aredeclared tobeontheanalogy
applicable onsight seeing flights. Asthings stand, thepresent Regulation willbe
replaced on1April 1999 byJAR-OPS orlegislation inwhich JAR-OPS shall be
implemented.G/TBT/Notif.97.669
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8. Relevant documents: ICAO-Annex 6and10;Aviation Act(Article 8A,paragraph 2);
Regulation Governing Aviation Monitoring (Article 114); Point 5.1ofAppendix 3,
Article 12,paragraph 2(b), Point 10oftheRegulation Governing Aviation Safety,
containing requirements withregard tomanually-operated fireextinguishing devices and
theextinguishing agents contained therein (Article 12andAppendix 3belong hereto) is
applicable toArticle 13onmanually-operated fireextinguishing devices. These
requirements arebased ontheEuropean Aviation requirements (JAR 23)which leads to
common technical regulations within theEuropean Union.
9. Proposed dateofadoption: 20November 1997
Proposed dateofentry intoforce: 21November 1997
10. Final dateforcomments: 19November 1997
TheNetherlands willproceed toimplement theproposed measure after45days
ifnocomments orrequests forextension ofthetime-limit havebeenreceived from other
Members within thattime.
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: