. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/302 
16 December 2009  
 (09-6528) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  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:  ec-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):  Transportable pressure 
equipment.        
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a Directive 
of the European Parliament a nd of the Council on transportable pressure equipment products 
(COM (2009) 482) (37 pages, in Englis h, French and Spanish).      
6. Description of content:  The proposed Directive concerns sa fety of transportable pressure 
equipment and their free movement and use in  the EU. Following changes in international 
rules on transport of dangerous goods and updated provisions on the EU internal market, the 
so-called New Legislative Fram ework, the existing Council Di rective 1999/36/EC of 29 April 
1999 on transportable pressure equipment needs to be revised. The proposed new Directive 
will have the same objective, scope and legal ba se as the existing Directive.  It should be 
noted that the technical provisions on design, construction and testing of the covered 
equipment are in the international agreements  on the inland transport of dangerous goods, 
under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (transport by 
road and inland waterways) and Intergovernmen tal Organisation for International Carriage by 
Rail (transport by rail). 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Guaranteeing the protection of human health  and safety while providing for the free 
circulation and use of transportabl e pressure equipment in the EU.  G/TBT/N/EEC/302 
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  8. Relevant documents:    
- Directive 1999/36/EC (directive to be repealed) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:1999:138:0020:0056:EN:PD
 
- Directive 2008/68/EC (directive on transport of dangerous goods) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:260:0013:0059:EN:PDF  
- European Agreement concerning the Internat ional Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, 
UNECE 
- European Agreement concerning the Internati onal Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland 
Waterways, UNECE and 
- Regulations concerning the International Ca rriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail, OTIF 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
Proposed date of entry into force:    1 July 2010, transposed into national laws by 
latest 1 July 2011 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU   
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or addre ss, 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:  ec-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:2009:0482:FIN:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0482:FIN:ES:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0482:FIN:FR:PDF  
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/eec/09_4361_00_e.pdf