. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EEC/412 
28 October 2011  
 (11-5442) 
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:  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 [X], 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):  Inland waterw ay vessels. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Directive amending the Annexes to Directive 2006/87/EC of the European Parliament and of 
the Council laying down technical requirements for inland waterw ay vessels (71 pages, in 
English). 
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Directive amending technical requirements 
for inland waterway vessels ai ms at revising and clarifying requirements about railings, 
stability and transitional provisions. It also contains provisions modernising radar specifications. A series of new or revised admini strative instructions on various subjects give 
clarification on how to interpret the regulations. More specifically:  
In Annex II the draft measure incorporates re vised requirements in chapter 7, reduction on 
regulations for navigation lights by refe rring to a standard, chapter 10.03 on fire 
extinguishers, chapter 11:  safety at workstations provided by railings and on safe operations 
with cranes, chapter 14 on liquefied gas installations, chapter 15 on stability and fire-protection subject to passenger vessels, chapte r 22a on the stability of crafts longer than 
110 m and as result of changes a adaption of chapters 24 resp. 24a regarding transitional 
provisions.  
The Appendix I of Annex II is amended with  a new symbol for wearing a life jacket. 
The Appendix II of Annex II is extended with seve ral administrative instructions to inspection 
bodies for a proper interpre tation of the regulations. G/TBT/N/EEC/412 
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  The Annex IX is revised since the parts on na vigations lights are deleted and the parts on 
radar and rate-of-turn indicators is modernised.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and safety. Safety of navigation  
8. Relevant documents:   Council Directive 2006/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the 
Council of 12 December 2006 laying down techni cal requirements fo r inland waterway 
vessels and repealing Counc il Directive 82/714/EEC (OJ L 389, of 30.12.2006, p. 1) - 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Le xUriServ/LexUriServ.do?ur i=OJ:L:2006:389:0001:0260:EN:PDF   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    February 2012 
Day of publication in the Official Journal of the 
EU (about a month after adoption approx.).  EU Member States shall bring into force laws to 
comply with this Directive at the latest on 
30 June 2012.   
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, 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/  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_3547_00_e.pdf