G/TBT/N/MDA/54  
24 January 2022  
(22-0551) 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:  REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Moldova.  
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 indica ted if different from above:   
MD-2033, Chisinau, 1 Piata Marii Adunari Nationale,  
Tel. +373 22 250 593, +373 22 234 064  
E-mail: secretariat@me.gov.md ; lidia.jitari@m e.gov.md ; cristina.ceban@me.gov.md   
www.me.gov.md  
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):  Appliances 
burning gaseous fuels  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  The draft of 
Government Decision for the approval of the Technical Regulation on appliances burning 
gaseous fuels, 44 pages, Romanian language (44 page(s), in Romanian)  
6. Description of content:  Draft Technical Regulation lays down requirements for the 
placement on the market and the use of app liances burning gaseous fuels.  
The draft technical Regulation establishes requirements that any gas appliance or fittings 
must meet when being placed on the Moldovan market. The regulation covers domestic 
and non -domestic appliances and to fittings design ed to be incorporated into such 
appliances. It includes appliances for cooking, heating, hot water production, 
refrigeration, lighting, washing, forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped 
with such burners. Fittings are safety devices, contro lling devices or regulating devices 
and sub -assemblies. The appliances might be new or second hand, manufactured in 
Moldova or imported.  
The Regulation establishes obligations for manufacturers, importers and distributors of 
appliances and fittings. Manufacturers shall ensure that they have been designed and 
manufactured in accordance with the essential requirements set out in this regulation. 
Importers or distributors shall be considered a manufacturer and shall be subject to the 
same oblig ations when they place an appliance or a fitting on the market under his name 
or trademark or when they modify an appliance or a fitting considerably.  
This technical regulation establishes conformity assessment procedures for appliances 
burning gaseous fue ls that must comply with their producers.  G/TBT/N/MDA/54  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safet y; Protection of the 
environment; Quality requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. Law No 112 of 02 July 2014 for the ratification of the Association Agreement 
between the Republic of Moldova, on the one hand, and the European Union and 
the European Community of Atomic Energy and their Member States, of the 
other part;  
2. Law no. 235of 01.11.2011 on accreditation and conformity assessment 
activities.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  2 February 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  3 August 2022 ; 6 months from adoption  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Main TBT Enquiry Point  
Quality Infrastructure and Industrial Security Division,  
Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure  
Lidia JITARI, Senior Adviser  
 
National Notification Authority  
Elena CRAVET, Principal Adviser, Trade Regimes and Bilateral Economic Relations 
Section 
 
MD 2033  
Chisinau  
Piata Marii Adunari Nationale, 1  
+(373) 22 250 668; +(373) 22 250 639  
secretariat@me.gov.md ; lidia.jitari@me.gov.md ; elena.cravet@mfa.gov.md ,  
 
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