. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/375 
8 April 2011  
 (11-1758) 
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:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu
 
Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 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):  Textile products, articles 
of apparel and clothing accessories.   
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Directive amending, for the purposes of its ad aptation to technical progress, Annex II to 
Directive 96/73/EC of the European Parliame nt and of the Council on certain methods for 
quantitative analysis of binary  textile fibre mixtures (9 pa ges, in English).      
6. Description of content:  On the basis of recent findings by the technical working group on 
textile names and labelling, a new fibre was added to the list of fibres in Directive 
2008/121/EC, making it necessary to define uniform test me thods and adapt Directive 
96/73/EC.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Defining uniform test methods to be used for th e analysis of conformity of textile products 
with the fibre composition stated on the label.  G/TBT/N/EEC/375 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Directive 96/73/EC of the European  Parliament and of the Council of 
16 December 1996 on certain methods  for the quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre 
mixtures 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31996L0073:EN:HTML
 
Directive 2008/121/EC of the European Parlia ment and of the Council of 14 January 2009 on 
textile names (recast) (Text with EEA relevance) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Le xUriServ/LexUriServ.do?ur i=OJ:L:2009:019:0029:01:EN:HTML    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Expected in July 2011 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption approx.) EU Member States shall comply with the Directive by one year after publication. 
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/   
and at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_1014_00_e.pdf