G/TBT/N/EU/220  
 
14 July 2014  
(14-4021)  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: 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:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Gas appliances 
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 Appliances Burning Gaseous Fuels (COM(2014)258 final) (41 pages + Annex 24 pages in English, French and Spanish).  
6. Description of content: The proposal intends to replace Directive 2009/142/EC on 
appliances burning gaseous fuels by a regu lation. The proposed Regulation does not 
change the current scope of Directive 2009/142/EC, it does however modify some of its 
provisions in order to clarify and update thei r content. The proposed Regulation is aligned 
to the provisions of Decision No 768/2008/E C establishing a common framework for the 
marketing of products (NLF Decision).  
In particular, experience from the impl ementation of Directive 2009/142/EC made 
necessary to update and clarify some of its provisions, without modifying its scope. Those provisions mainly concern some sector specific definitions, the content and the form of the 
EU Member States communications of their gas supply conditions, the relationship with 
other European Union harmonisation legislation applying to gas appliances (for other aspects) and some essential requirements in order to complete them and thus reduce the 
need for interpretation. 
The provisions inserted in accordance with the NLF Decision, relate to general definitions, 
obligations of economic operators, notified bodies, conformity assessment bodies etc. In 
particular, those provisions clarify the obligations of manufacturers, authorised 
representatives, importers and distributors. Th ey reinforce the notification criteria for 
notified bodies. While the proposal keeps th e existing conformity assessment procedures, 
which manufacturers have to apply in order to demonstrate that their appliances burning 
gaseous fuels comply with the essential requirements, and the intervention in all cases of a 
notified body, those procedures have been adapted to Decision No 768/2008/EC. G/TBT/N/EU/220 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
The proposal aims to align Directive 2009/142/EC to Decision No 768/2008/EC and to update some of its provisions.  
8. Relevant documents:  
 Directive 2009/142/EC of the European Pa rliament and of the Council of 30 
November 2009 relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32009L0142&rid=1  
 Decision No 768/2008/EC of the European Pa rliament and of the Council of 9 July 
2008 on a common framework for the marketing of products, and repealing Council 
Decision 93/465/EEC http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriSe rv/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2
008:218:0082:0128:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   Mid-2015 
Proposed date of entry into force:   20 days from publication in  the Official Journal of the 
EU  
10. Final date for comments: 90 days from notification 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
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