. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/ITA/25 
13 January 2012  
 (12-0202) 
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:  ITALY  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministero dello sviluppo economico  
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 :   
Ministry for economic development  
Department for Enterprise and Internationalization  General Directorate for Market, Competiti on, Consumer, Vigilance and Technical 
Standardization Division XVIII - Technical standardization 
00187 Rome I - Via Sallustiana 53   
Tel.:  +39 06 4705.5430 Fax:  +39 06 48.21.702 
tbt.Italia@sviluppoeconomico.gov.it   
vincenzo.correggia@sviluppoeconomico.gov.it     
European Commission TBT Enquiry Point mailto:ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
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):  Wheel-tyre systems for 
cars. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Ministerial decree 
concerning: "Wheel-tyre systems for cars"(14 pages in Italian). 
6. Description of content:  The draft decree consists of ten articles and five annexes.  
- Articles 1 and 2 identify its scope and se t out the definitions used in the decree. 
- Article 3 provides for approval of th e systems and describes the methods and 
 procedures to be impl emented to obtain it.  
- Articles 4 to 8 set out requ irements relating to: general characteristics of the systems; 
 their construction and marking; installati on on vehicles and subs equent updating of 
 the logbook; checking the production conform ity verification system applied at the 
 manufacturing plants for the systems.  G/TBT/N/ITA/25 
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  - Article 9 sets out the conditions and me thods for the acknowledgement of systems 
 approved by Member States of the Eur opean Union, Turkey or parties to the 
 European Economic Area Agreement.  
- Article 10 makes reference to provisions to be issued by the Directorate-General for 
 Road Traffic to define the procedures  for updating vehicle logbooks of specific 
 vehicle types, for which the manufacturer has issued specific clearance for the 
 installation of tyre sizes not provided for in  the approval process, and establishes that 
 existing provisions shall apply to an y delays in adopting such measure. 
The annexes are models relating to:  
A Approval of a wheel-tyre system; 
B Approval certificate; C Procedure for checking the suitability  of a system for approval purposes; 
D Marking of the wheel; 
E Declaration of installation of the system on a vehicle. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
decree shall be adopted pursuant to the provisi ons of Article 75.3-(a) of Legislative Decree 
285/92 (Highway Code). The aforementioned st andard states that the Minister for 
Infrastructure and Transport shall issue decrees establishing specific st andards for the national 
approval of systems, components and technical un its, as well as suitable procedures for their 
installation as replacement or s upplementary vehicle pa rts, in types of ca rs and motorcycles.  
The decree in question regulates the content of  the technical administ rative procedures for 
proving retrofit wheels and vehicle manufacturer 's replacement wheels , and any other parts 
(tyres, fixing nuts and bolts) designed to be in stalled on cars to replace original parts. 
These standards need to be adopted because wh eels are not currently covered by specific 
technical specifications harmonised at Community level. 
8. Relevant documents:   References to basic texts: Le gislative Decree 285 of 30 April 1992 - 
Article 75.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    March 2012   
10. Final date for comments:  2 March 2012 
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:    
see box 2 
Text on line at:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tris/index_it.htm   
http://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2011/tbt/ITA/11_4493_00_x.pdf