G/TBT/N/EU/99  
 
15 March 2013  
(13-1409)  Page: 1/4  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  
Manufactured products (except those excluded  in Article 2 (Scope) of the proposal). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a 
Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on market surveillance of 
products and amending Council Directives 89/686/EEC and 93/15/EEC, and Directives 
94/9/EC, 94/25/EC, 95/16/EC, 97/23/EC , 1999/5/EC, 2000/9/EC, 2000/14/EC, 
2001/95/EC, 2004/108/EC, 2006/42/EC, 2006/95/EC, 2007/23/EC, 2008/57/EC, 2009/48/EC, 2009/105/EC, 2009/142/EC, 201 1/65/EU, Regulation (EU) No 305/2011, 
Regulation (EC) No 764/2008 and Regulati on (EC) No 765/2008 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council (COM(2013) 75 final) (62 Pages, in English, French and Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  This proposal concerns the simplification and better 
enforcement of market surveillance rules for products. Thus it will help to guarantee 
consumer products safety and to give honest traders a chance to compete on equal terms. 
As a result, the free movement of safer products in the EU internal market will be significantly improved.  G/TBT/N/EU/99 
 
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7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health and safety, the environment and the public 
interest in general.  Creating a level playing field for honest traders.  
The proposed regulation is aimed at improving product safety in the EU by strengthening 
market surveillance in the Member States. This will benefit consumers and will protect 
businesses from unfair competition. Today, divergences in market surveillance among 
Member States threatens the public interest and creates unfair trading conditions. Furthermore, part of the risk derives from products entering the Union from third 
countries. There must be effective market surveillance along the entire length of the 
Union's external borders. Therefore, the new enforcement rules will help national market surveillance authorities to cooperate much better to ensure a level playing field for businesses and safer products for consumers. To this end national authorities should also 
improve cooperation with their colleagues in other Member States, which will avoid double 
work as test results can be exchanged. 
The proposed Regulation is aimed at the creation of a single, more collaborative system of 
market surveillance for almost all products, based on one legislative act. 
8. Relevant documents:   Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package 
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/single-market-goods/internal-market-for-
products/market-surveillance/index_en.htm#h2-1   
Council Directive 89/686/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States 
relating to personal protective equipment  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=CONSLEG:1989L0686:20031120:en:PDF  
Council Directive 93/15/EEC on the harmonization of the provisions relating to the placing 
on the market and supervision of explosives for civil uses 
http://eurlex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=e
n&numdoc=31993L0015&model=guichett   
Directive 94/9/EC of the European Parliament and Council on the approximation of the 
laws of the Member States concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31994L0009:en:NOT   
Directive 94/25/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the approximation of 
the laws of the Member States concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres:  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31994L0025:en:NOT  
Directive 95/16/EC of the European Parliament and Council on the approximation of the 
laws of the Member States relating to lifts:  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31995L0016:en:NOT  
Directive 97/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of 
the laws of the Member States concerning pressure equipment  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31997L0023:en:NOT  
Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 1999 on 
radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity   
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31999L0005:EN:NOT  
Directive 2000/9/EC of th e European Parliament and of the Council relating to cableway 
installations designed to carry persons 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0009:en:NOT  G/TBT/N/EU/99 
 
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  Directive 2000/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation 
of the laws of the Member States relating to the noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0014:EN:HTML  
Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parlia ment and of the Council on general product 
safety  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0095:EN:HTML  
Directive 2004/108/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 
2004 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic 
compatibility and repealing Directive 89/336/EEC  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32004L0108:en:NOT  
Directive 2006/42/EC on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast) 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2006:1 57:0024:0086:en:PDF  
Directive 2006/95/EC of the European Parliame nt and of the Council on the harmonisation 
of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within 
certain voltage limits:  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2006:3 74:0010:0019:en:PDF  
Directive 2007/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the placing on the 
market of pyrotechnic articles  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2007:154:0001:0021:EN:PDF  
Directive 2008/57/EC on the interoperability of the rail system within the Community 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2008:191:0001:0045:EN:PDF  
Directive 2009/48/EC on the safety of toys  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2009:1 70:0001:0037:en:PDF  
Directive 2009/105/EC relating to simple pressure vessels  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2009:2 64:0012:0029:en:PDF  
Directive 2009/142/EC relating to a ppliances burning gaseous fuels  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2009:3 30:0010:0027:en:PDF  
Directive 2011/65/EU on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in 
electrical and electronic equipment  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2011:1 74:0088:0110:en:PDF  
Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of 
construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2011:088:0005:0043:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 764/2008  laying down procedures relating to the application of certain 
national technical rules to products lawfully marketed in another Member State and repealing Decision No 3052/95/EC  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2008:2 18:0021:0029:en:PDF  G/TBT/N/EU/99 
 
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  Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European  Parliament and of the Council setting out 
the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2008:2 18:0030:0047:en:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    1st semester of 2014 The proposed date of application is 1 January 2015   
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from date of notification.  
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@e c.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
and at 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0075:FIN:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0075:FIN:FR:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0075:FIN:ES:PDF  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/TBT/EEC/13_1115_00_e.pdf