. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CHE/137 
17 August 2011  
 (11-4106) 
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:  SWITZERLAND  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Swiss Federal Of fice of Energy 
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 :   
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs  
Non-tariff Measures Division  Holzikofenweg 36  CH-3003 Berne  Fax:  +41 31 324 09 58 
Email:  tbt@seco.admin.ch  
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):  Passenger cars 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft version of the 
Ordinance on the reduction of CO2-emissions of passenger cars, (10 pages, available in 
German, French and Italian) 
6. Description of content:  In March 2011, the Swiss parliame nt adopted a partial revision of 
the law on CO2-emissions aiming at reducing th e emissions of passenger cars. The proposed 
ordinance rules the implementation of the corr esponding articles of the law. The ordinance 
follows closely the corresponding EU-Regula tion (EC) No. 443/2009 with minor changes 
where necessary. The main differences are (1) that  the importer of a car is responsible for its 
CO 2-emissions and (2) a differentia tion is made between big impo rters (> 50 cars registered 
for the first time), for whom there will be calculated an average value of CO 2-emissions at the 
end of every reference year, a nd small importers (< 50 cars) wh o have to pay an eventual 
sanction before the registration of any new pa ssenger car for implementation reasons. Major 
specifications of the EU-regulation, in particul ar scope, specific emission targets, derogations 
for certain manufacturers, super- credits, pooling, height of the excess emission premium and 
eco-innovations have been adopted uniformly.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
regulation reduces CO 2-emissions, combats climate cha nge and reduces the dependency on 
fossil energy resources  G/TBT/N/CHE/137 
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  8. Relevant documents:    
-  Draft version of the ordinance on the re duction of CO2-emissions  of passenger cars,
 (available in German, French and Italian); 
-  Legal basis for the draft ordinanc e: Federal law on the reduction of CO
2-emissions 
 (October 8, 1999) SR.641.71 (available in  German, French and Italian) as amended 
 by Revision of March 18, 2011 (availab le in German, French and Italian). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    31.11.2011 
01.05.2012 
10. Final date for comments:  21.10.2011. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/gg/pc/pendent.html  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/CHE/11_2695_00_F.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/CHE/11_2695_00_X.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/CHE/11_2695_00_X2.pdf