G/TBT/N/EGY/353  
11 May 2023  
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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:  EGYPT  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality  
16 Tadreeb El -Modarrebeen St., Ameriya, Cairo - Egypt  
E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg /eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  
Website: http://www.eos.org.eg  
Tel.: 0222845528  
Fax: 0222845504  
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 if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Road 
vehicles in general (ICS code(s): 43.020)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notif ied document:  Draft of 
Egyptian standard "Requirements for the approval of L -category vehicles"; (217 page(s), 
in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft of Egyptian standard establishes the detailed 
technical requirements and test procedures regar ding functional safety for the approval 
of L-category vehicles and the systems, components and separate technical units 
intended for such vehicles and sets out a list of UNECE regulations and amendments 
thereto.  
This Standard shall apply to all two - or three -wheel vehicles and quad -cycles as 
categorized in Clause 4 and Table 1 ('L -category vehicles'), that are intended to travel on 
public roads, including those designed and constructed in one or more stages, and t o 
systems, components and separate technical units, as well as parts and equipment, 
designed and constructed for such vehicles.  
This standard does not apply to the following vehicles:  
a) vehicles with a maximum design speed not exceeding 6 km/h;  
b) vehicle s exclusively intended for use by the physically handicapped;  
c) vehicles exclusively intended for pedestrian control;  
d) vehicles exclusively intended for use in competition;  G/TBT/N/EGY/353  
 
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  e) vehicles designed and constructed for use by the armed services, civil -defens e, fire 
services, forces responsible for maintaining public order and emergency medical services;  
f) agricultural or forestry vehicles  
g) vehicles primarily intended for off -road use and designed to travel on unpaved 
surfaces;  
h) pedal cycles with pedal as sistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor 
having a maximum continuous rated power of less than or equal to 250 W, where the 
output of the motor is cut off when the cyclist stops pedalling and is otherwise 
progressively reduced and finall y cut off before the vehicle speed reaches 25 km/h;  
i) self -balancing vehicles;  
j) vehicles not equipped with at least one seating position;  
k) Vehicles equipped with any seating position of the driver or rider having an R -point 
height ≤ 540 mm in case of categories L1e, L3e and L4e or ≤ 400 mm in case of categories 
L2e, L5e, L6e and L7e.  
Worth mentioning is that this draft standard is a local standard.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality  
Address: 16 Tadreeb El -Modarrebeen St.  
Ameriya, Cairo - Egypt 
E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg  / eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  
Website: http://www.eos.org.eg