G/TBT/N/USA/2075  
5 December 202 3 
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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) [2106]  
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:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
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):  Cockpit 
voice recorders; On -board equipment and instruments (ICS code(s): 49.090)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  25-Hour Cockpit 
Voice Recorder (CVR) Requirement, New Aircraft Production; (9 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed rulemaking - This rulemaking would increase  
the recording time of cockpit voice recorders from the mandated 2 hours to a proposed 
25-hour recording time for all future manufactured aircraft. This rulemaking would 
provide accident investigators, aircraft operators, and civil aviation authorities wit h 
substantially more cockpit voice recorder data to help find the probable causes of incidents 
and accidents, prevent future incidents and accidents, and make the FAA's regulations 
more consistent with existing international requirements.  
7. Objective and  rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
88 Federal Register (FR) 84090, 4 December 2023; Title 14  Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Parts 91, 121, 125, and 135: 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-12-04/html/2023 -26144.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-12-04/pdf/2023 -26144.pdf  
This notice of proposed rulemaking is identified by Docket Number FAA -2023-2270. The 
Docket Folder is available on Regulations.g ov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA -2023-2270/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 
are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT Enquiry Point . Comments received by the G/TBT/N/USA/2075  
 
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  USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members and their stakeholders by 4pm Eastern Time  
on 2 February 2024 will be shared with the regulator and will also be submitted to the 
Docket  on Regulations.gov if received within the comment period.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  2 February 2024  
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/2023/TBT/USA/23_14008_00_e.pdf