. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/307 
21 January 2010  
 (10-0314) 
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 [   ], 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):  - 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Decision amending Decision 2006/771/EC on harmon isation of the radio spectrum for use by 
short-range devices (16 pages, in English).       
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Decision requires Member States to 
designate and make available on a non-exclusiv e, non-interference and non-protected basis 
the frequency bands for the types of short-range devices, subject to the specific conditions and 
by the implementation deadline, as laid down in the technical annex.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
This draft Decision will amend the Short- Range Devices Decision (the SRD Decision – 
Decision 2006/771/EC as amended by Decisi on 2009/381/EC) by replacing the technical 
annex in place with an updated version in or der to respond to rapid changes in technology, 
societal demands and the consequent emergenc e of new short-range applications. This new 
version of the technical annex will increase the number of harmonised frequency bands that 
can be used by short-range devices.  
8. Relevant documents:   Commission Decision 2006/771/EC of 9 November 2006 on 
harmonisation of the radio spectrum for use by short-range devices  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2006:312:0066:0070:EN:PDF  G/TBT/N/EEC/307 
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  Commission Decision 2009/381/EC of 13 May 2009 amending De cision 2006/771/EC on 
harmonisation of the radio spectrum for use by short-range devices  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2009:119:0032:0039:EN:PDF
 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }End of April 2010 
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:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu 
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2010/tbt/eec/10_0253_00_e.pdf