. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ARM/22 
18 October 2005 
 (05-4772) 
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:   REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:         
National Institute of Standards of the Mi nistry of Trade and Economic Development 
Komitas 49/2 Yerevan, 375051 Republic of Armenia 
Tel:   (+37410) 237020 
Fax:   (+37410) 285620 E-mail:   sarm@sarm.am   Enquiry Point E-mail: press@sarm.am     
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
WTO Notification Agency in the Republic of Armenia 
5, Mkrtchyan Yerevan, 375010 Republic of Armenia 
Tel:  (+37410) 543981 
Fax:  (+37410) 543983 E-mail:  aghazaryan@minted.am 
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):    
All passenger vehicles belonging to group M and lorries belonging to group N and their 
sub-groups that are to be put into exploita tion and those already in exploitation in the 
Republic of Armenia. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Technical regulation 
on environmental safety of vehicles that are to be put into exploitation and those already in 
exploitation in the Republic of Armenia (19 pages, in Armenian) 
6. Description of content:   Technical regulation sets out requirements for ecological level of 
diagnostic substances for acceptable levels of emissions, allowable level of nitric oxide, 
hydrocarbon, and carbon monoxide in exhaust for vehicles that are to be put into exploitation and those already in exploitation in the Republic of Armenia. G/TBT/N/ARM/22 
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 7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The technical regulation was developed pursu ant to the WTO Agreement on TBT and the 
provisions of Articles 8 of the RA Law on Standardization, to raise environmental safety and to set out allowable levels of injurious substances in exhaust to provide protection of 
environment and population from the negative effe ct of exhaust contaminants of vehicles 
that are to be put into exploitation and those already in exploitation in the Republic of 
Armenia. 
8. Relevant documents:   UN European Technical Commission Directives N24, N49, N83, 
N96 on requirements of injurious emissions of vehicles 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined. 
Decree shall enter into force 6 months after its 
official publication. 
10. Final date for comments:  2 December 2005 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
National Institute of Standards of the Minist ry of Trade and Economic Development of the 
Republic of Armenia  
Komitas 49/2 
Yerevan, 375051 Republic of Armenia 
Tel:  (+37410) 237020 
Fax:  (+37410) 285620 
E-mail:  press@sarm.am