. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/FRA/94 
27 January 2009 
 (09-0383) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   French 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  FRANCE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  Ministère de l'agriculture et de la pêche (Ministry of Agriculture and 
Fisheries) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding 
the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
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):   Agricultural or forestry 
tractors in categories T2 and T3 with a minimum track width of less than 1150 mm. and with an unladen mass, in running order, of not more than 3,000 kg. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Arrêté relatif à 
l'homologation nationale à titre individue l des tracteurs agricoles ou forestiers  (Order on the 
national individual approval of agricultural or forestry tractors) (19 pages). 
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Order seeks to provide for the verification and 
certification, for the French market, of the conformity of prototype tractors or individually modified tractors that are new or placed on the market for the first time in the European 
Community.  It sets forth procedures for th e accreditation and approval of the bodies 
responsible for issuing national individual approval decisions and carrying out tests, 
examinations and checks.  The draft text specifi es the content of the information folder that 
must accompany the application for approval subm itted to the accredited body.  It defines the 
conformity assessment criteria based on European Directives relating to tractors in categories 
T2 and T3, through which destructive testing ma y be avoided.  The text also sets forth the 
model for an approval decision showing the tr actor's identification number and provides for 
the simplification of the procedure followe d in cases where a manufacturer seeks approval 
for a tractor in respect of which an iden tical application has already been filed. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
The European marketing procedures required for agricultural or forestry tractors in categories 
T2 and T3 call for EC type approval.  Such pr ocedures relate to the certification of standard 
tractors and not to the placing on the market of prototype tractors or individually modified tractors. G/TBT/N/FRA/94 
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  8. Relevant documents:  Décret n° 2005-1236 du 30 septe mbre 2005 relatif aux règles, 
prescriptions et procédures applicables aux trac teurs agricoles ou forestiers et à leurs 
dispositifs, transposant la directive 2003/37/CE  (Decree No. 2005-1236 of 
30 September 2005 on the rules, requirements a nd procedures applicable to agricultural or 
forestry tractors and the devices formi ng part of such vehicles, transposing 
Directive 2003/37/EC). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  May 2008 - 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body:  
National enquiry point: 
CINORTECH 
AFNOR 
11, avenue Francis de Pressensé 93571 – SAINT DENIS – LA PLAINE Cedex  and:  here