. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/20 
27 February 2012  
 (12-1101) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt 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:  mailto: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 [X], 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):  All electric and electronic 
equipment.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a Directive 
of the European Parliament and of the C ouncil on the harmonisation of the laws of the 
Member States relating to el ectromagnetic compatibility (C OM(2011) 765) (65 pages, in 
English, French and Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  This Commission proposal concerns  the alignment of the current 
legislation (Directive 2004/108/EC ) regulating the essential re quirements on electromagnetic 
compatibility for electrical and electronic equipment to the provisions of the New Legislative Framework, in particul ar to Decision No 768/2008/EC.  The proposal is part of a package of 9 
European Directives to be aligned to th e New Legislative Fram ework. The introduced 
modifications relate to the rein forcement of obligations of ec onomic operators, in particular 
the traceability of the produc ts, reinforcement of the requi rements for notified bodies, and 
streamlining the safeguard clause procedures.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
proposal, like the current Direc tive, aims at protecting the el ectromagnetic compatibility of 
equipment.  G/TBT/N/EU/20 
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8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2004/108/EC of the Europe an Parliament and of the Council 
of 15 December 2004 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to 
electromagnetic compatibility and repealing Directive 89/336/EEC Text  with EEA relevance 
(OJ L 390, 31.12.2004, p. 24–37) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:390:0024:0037:en:PDF  
Decision No 768/2008/EC of the European Parlia ment and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on a 
common framework for the marketing of pr oducts, and repealing Council Decision 
93/465/EEC (OJ L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 82-128) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:218:0082:0128:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 
setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the 
marketing of products and repe aling Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 (OJ L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 
30-47) (New Legislative Framework) (No tified under reference G/TBT/N/EEC/152) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:218:0030:0047:EN:PDF  
New Legislative Framework for ma rketing of products - website 
http://ec.europa.eu/enterpris e/policies/single-m arket-goods/regulat ory-policies-common-
rules-for-products/new-legis lative-framework/index_en.htm  
Applicable HS: 
"http://ec.europa.eu/ent erprise/policies/europe an-standards/documents/ harmonised-standards-
legislation/list-references/electromagnetic-compatibility/index_en.htm  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    End of 2012 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption approx.).  Applicable 2 years after adoption 
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
and at 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=COM:2011:0765:FIN:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=COM:2011:0765:FIN:FR:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=COM:2011:0765:FIN:ES:PDF  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_0742_00_e.pdf