G/TBT/N/FRA/157  
1 August 2014  
(14-4458)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: French  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member: FRANCE 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Ministère de l'intérieur  (Ministry of the Interior) 
Direction générale de la sécurité civile et de  la gestion des crises - Direction des sapeurs-
pompiers - Sous-direction des services d'incend ie et des acteurs du secours - Bureau de la 
réglementation incendie et des risques courants  (Directorate-General of Civil Security and 
Crisis Management - Fire Brigade Directorate - Sub-Directorate of Fire and Rescue Services 
- Fire Regulation and Common Risks Department) Place Beauvau 
75800 PARIS cedex 08 
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:   
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): Power, 
control and communication cables. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document: Arrêté modifiant 
l'arrêté du 21 juillet 1994 portant classification et attestation de conformité du comportement au feu des conducteurs et câbles  électriques, et agrément des laboratoires 
d'essais, et fixant les modalités transitoires d'utilisation des classes européennes de 
réaction au feu  (Order amending the Order of 21 July 1994 establishing the classification of 
electrical conductors and cables and their conformity certification in respect of fire behaviour, approving testing laboratories, and establishing transitional provisions for the 
application of European reaction-to-fire classes) (3 pages, in French) 
6. Description of content: The notified Order concerns the reaction to fire of power, control 
and communication cables and the application of the corresponding performance classes in 
accordance with fire safety regulation requirements. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Regulation (EU) No. 305/2011 of the Euro pean Parliament and of the Council 
of 9 March 2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction 
products applies the principle of free movement to power, control and communication 
cables. 
Performance classifications, especially in respect of fire, must be taken into account for CE 
marking purposes; national classifications must  therefore be replaced by the corresponding 
European classifications.  G/TBT/N/FRA/157 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
- Reaction to fire: Decision 2006/751/EC 
- Resistance to fire: Decision 2000/367/EC 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 30 September 2014 
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 January 2015  
10. Final date for comments: - 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body: 
CINORTECH AFNOR 
11 avenue Francis de Pressensé 93571 SAINT-DENIS-LA PLAINE Cedex 
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