G/TBT/N/SGP/55  
20 August 2020  
(20-5675) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  SINGAPORE   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  National Environment Agency (NEA)  
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 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  87.02: 
Motor vehicles for trans port of 10 or more persons including driver; 87.03: Motor cars 
and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than 
those heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars; 87.04: Motor vehicles 
for the transport of  goods; 87.05: Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those 
principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown 
lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological 
units); 87.06: Chassis  fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 
87.05; 87.09: Works trucks, self -propelled, not fitted with lifting or handling equipment, 
of the type used in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short distance 
transport of g oods; tractors of the type used in railway station platforms; parts of the 
foregoing vehicles  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) (Amendment) 
Regulations 2 021 (in English)  
6. Description of content:  Singapore plans to tighten the particle number (PN) limit for 
gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles from 6x1012 to 6x1011 from 1 September 2021.  
Regulation 4(1) of the Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) 
Regulations state that  every petrol driven motor vehicle (other than a motor cycle or 
scooter) to be registered in Singapore on or after 1 September 2017 shall conform to any 
of the standards for exhaust emission specified in the First Schedule for the class of motor 
vehicle to  which that motor vehicle belongs.  
The standards specified in the First Schedule of the Environmental Protection and 
Management (Vehicular Emissions) Regulations for GDI vehicles currently has a PN limit 
of 6x1012. This is to be tightened to 6x1011 from 1 September 2021.  
The new limit is in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 715/2007, Annex I, Table 2, as 
amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 459/2012 and read with Commission 
Regulation (EU) No. 2017/1151.  G/TBT/N/SGP/55  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including  the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  As part of the National Environment Agency (NEA)'s on -going efforts to 
further improve Singapore's ambient air quality and safeguard public health, NEA 
regularly reviews and tightens vehicular emission stand ards under the Environmental 
Protection and Management (Vehicular Emission) Regulations. The objective is protection 
of the environment and human health by controlling and prohibiting the emission of air 
impurities. Ultrafine particles (i.e. PN) are a haza rd to public health, hence emissions of 
ultrafine particles from GDI vehicles should be limited as much as possible. The PN limit 
for GDI petrol vehicles should thus be tightened from 6x1012 to 6x1011 to align with the 
current PN limit of the Euro 6 emissi on standard in the EU.  
8. Relevant documents:   
Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) Regulations - available 
online at https://sso.agc.gov.sg . Finalised amendments to the Environmental Protection 
and Management (Vehicular Emissions) Regulations will be published in the Gazette.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Notice will be published in the Republic of Singapore's 
Government Gazette when adopted  
Proposed date of entry into f orce:  1 September 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
National Environment Agency (NEA)  
40 Scotts Road, #13 -00 
Environment Building  
Singapore 228231  
 
Mr Nick Tan  
Senior Assistant Director, Environmental Protection Policy Department  
Tel.: (65) 6731 9011 (DID)  
Fax: (65) 6731 -9866 
Email: Nick_Tan@nea.gov.sg