G/TBT/N/EU/618  
 
7 November 2018  
(18-6964) 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 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:   
European Commission  
EU-TBT Enquiry Point  
Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43  
E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/  
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 applica ble, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): 
Construction products  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft 
Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (E U) No 305/2011 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council by establishing classes of performance in relation 
to resistance to wind load for external blinds and awnings (and its accompanying annex) 
(6 pages + Annex 2 pages, in English)    
6. Description of content: This draft delegated act under the Construction Products 
Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 (the CPR) contains the introduction of new classes of 
performance in relation to resistance to wind load for external blinds and awnings under 
standard EN 13561 as well as differentiation of the use of classes among the product 
subfamilies covered by this standard.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: According to the available information, the existi ng classes are not sufficient 
for all the products at hand, since new kinds of products in this field have been developed 
more recently, representing a higher wind resistance than before. The use of the existing 
classes may also in some cases lead to safet y problems linked to the fixing of the products. 
For those reasons, the classification of the performance in question would need to be 
enlarged, but differentiated among the various product subfamilies covered by standard 
EN 13561.  G/TBT/N/EU /618 
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of  
the Council of 9 March 2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the  
marketing of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC. 
Official Journal of the EU No L 88 of 4.4. 2011, page 5. http://eur -
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:088:0005:0043:EN:PD
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  1st quarter 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force: 1st quarter 2019  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from: National 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: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text  is available on the EU -TBT Website:  
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/EEC/18_5759_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/EEC/18_5759_01_e.pdf