G/TBT/N/CHN/1207  
 
14 June 2017  
(17-3159) 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 : CHINA   
If applicable, name of local government involved  (Article 3.2 and 7.2) :  
2. Agency responsible:  Standardization Administration of Chin a (SAC)  
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 Articl e 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):  Road vehicles except 
trams . Tractors (other than tractor s of heading 87.09). (HS 8701), Motor vehicles for the 
transport of ten or more persons, including the driver. (HS 8702), Motor cars and other 
motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of 
heading 87.02), including s tation wagons and racing cars. (HS 8703), Motor vehicles for 
the transport of goods. (HS 8704), Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those 
principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown lorries 
(wreckers), crane lo rries (mobile cranes), fire fighting vehicles, concrete mixer lorries 
(concrete -mixers), road sweeper lorries (road sweepers), spraying lorries (spraying 
vehicles), mobile workshops, mobile radiological units). (HS 8705), Chassis fitted with 
engines, for t he motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05. (HS 8706), Bodies (including 
cabs), for the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05. (HS 8707), Parts and accessories 
of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05. (HS 8708), 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 goods; tractors of the type used on 
railway station platforms; parts of the foregoing vehicles. (HS 8709). Roa d vehicles in 
general (ICS 43.020).  
5. Title, number of pages  and language(s)  of the notified document:  Technical 
Specifications for Safety of Power -driven Vehicles Operating on Roads (57 page(s), in 
Chinese)    
6. Description of content:  This standard sp ecifies the basic technical requirements related 
to safety operating of completed vehicles, main assemblies and safety protection devices, 
etc. of power -driven vehicles, as well as the additional requirements for fire engines, 
ambulances, wreckers, police vehicles and vehicles for handicapped driving.  
7. Objective and rationale , including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  -  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 90 days after circulation b y the WTO Secretariat  
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 January 2018  G/TBT/N/CHN/1207  
 
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  10. Final date for comments:  60 days after circulation by WTO Secretariat  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point  [X] or address, telephone and fax 
number s and e mail and we bsite address es, if available , of other body:   
WTO/TBT National Notification and Enquiry Center of the People's Republic of China  
Tel.: +86 10 84603950 / 84603889  
Fax: +86 10 84603811  
E-mail: tbt@aqsiq.gov.cn  
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