G/TBT/N/EU/138  
 
22 July 2013  
(13-3935)  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 [   ], 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): New 
passenger cars & light commercial vehicles (categories M1 and N1). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a 
Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning type-approval 
requirements for the deployment of the eCall in-vehicle system and amending Directive 
2007/46/EC (COM(2013) 316 fi nal) (14 pages in English). 
6. Description of content: This proposal for a Regulation specifies the obligatory 
requirements of the eCall in-vehicle system for cars and vans. It also amends Directive 2007/46/EC to take into account this new requirement.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The proposal envisages the mandatory fitting of a system that in the case of a 
severe crash will automatically send information and launch a voice call to the nearest 
national emergency service (112 number). In addition, the sending of the information and 
dialling of the 112 number can also be manually triggered.  
Protection of Human health or Safety 
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the 
Council of 5 September 2007 establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units 
intended for such vehicles (Framework Directive) (OJ L 263, 9.10.2007, p. 1160): 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=CONSLEG:2007L0046:20120226:en:PDF  
Impact Assessment:  
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/esafety/doc/ecall/recomm/imp_assess
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   End of February 2014 20 days from publicat ion in the Official 
Journal of the EU (about a month after 
adoption approx.). Proposed date of entry 
into application: from 1 October 2015  
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from 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:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu 
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website : http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/     
and 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0316:FIN:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0316:FIN:FR:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0316:FIN:ES:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:DKEY=729666:EN:NOT  
and   
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/TBT/EEC/13_2917_00_e.pdf