. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/17 
13 February 2012  
 (12-0823) 
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):  Internal combustion 
engines to be placed on machinery covered by Directive 97/68/EC as amended (2002/88/EC, 
2004/26/EC).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Directive amending Directive 97/68/EC of the Eu ropean Parliament and of the Council on the 
approximation of the laws of th e Member States relating to measures against the emission of 
gaseous and particulate pollutants from intern al combustion engines to be installed in non-
road mobile machinery (72 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  This Commission Directive is an update of the requirements for 
Type Approval of Stage IV engines. The propos ed technical adaptation aims at clarifying the 
conditions under which a type a pproved engine should be tested  to ensure compliance with 
the exhaust emission limits during its entire life . The aim is to reflect the latest technological 
progress with regard to control conditions and testing of the more sophisticated Stage IV 
engines and the relevant after tr eatment systems. The overall purpo se is to reduce the margin 
of interpretation of Technica l Services and to provide guidance to stakeholders when 
preparing for engine approvals.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Trade facilitation and prot ection of the environment  G/TBT/N/EU/17 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Directive 97/68/EC of the European  Parliament and of the Council of 
16 December 1997 on the approximation of the la ws of the Member States relating to 
measures against the emission of  gaseous and particulate pollutants from internal combustion 
engines to be installed in non-road mobile machinery 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31997L0068:EN:HTML  
Relevant International Standard :  UNECE Regulation No 96.03 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    June 2012 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU. EU Member States shall bring into 
force laws to comply with this Directive (at the latest 12 months after its entry into force).     
10. Final date for comments:  60 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:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_0585_00_e.pdf