. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ARG/118
19 June 2003
(03-3296)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  ARGENTINA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:   MERCOSUR Common Market Group
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:   idem  National
enquiry point
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):   Bicycles
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft MERCOSUR
Technical Regulation on the Safety of Children's Bicycles  (7 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   Children's bicycles may be placed on the market only if they
comply with the essential safety requirem ents (MERCOSUR Standard NM 301:2002) and
the warnings and indications of precautions to be taken during use laid down in Annexes I
and II, which form part of this draft Resolution, taking into consideration the safety and/or
health of users and third parties when the bicycles are used as intended or in a foreseeableway, bearing in mind the normal behaviour of the children for whom they are designed.
Children's bicycles may also only be placed on the market in or transferred in any
way between the States Parties if they accredit compliance with the safety and labelling
requirements laid down in this draft Regulation by way of a product conformity certificate
issued by a certification authority approved by the accreditation body and recognized by the
regulatory body of the country of destination in both instances.
Identification: the name, trade name or trademark and address of the manufacturer
or importer, together with the warnings and precautions established in Annex II, shall be
affixed to the packaging or, where no packaging exists, to the product itself in a visible,
easily legible and indelible form. Instructions for use, when required, may be given on the
packaging, on a label or in a leaflet.
This draft Resolution is not mandatory for bicycles intended for export to third
countries.
Annex I: Essential safety requirements for children's bicycles; Annex II: Warnings
and precautions.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
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8. Relevant documents:   MERCOSUR/XV Working Subgr oup No. 3/Draft Resolution No.
02/03.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  12 May 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  12 July 2003
10. Final date for comments:   12 July 2003 (E-mail to mercsgt3@mecon.gov.ar)
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X], or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of other body:
Focal Point of the Argentine Republic
National Directorate of Domestic Trade (DNCI)
Avda. J. A. Roca 651, 4th floor, Sector 2, (C1067ABB) Buenos Aires
Fax.:  (54 11) 4349-4072Tel.:  (54 11) 4349-4067
E-mail:  focalotc@mecon.gov.ar