. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHN/271 
21 August 2007 
 (07-3517) 
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:   THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Standardization Administration of China (SAC) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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):   Numerically controlled 
turning machines and turning centres (ICS:  25.080.10; HS: 8458) 
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:   National Standards of 
the P.R.C., Safety of Machine Tools - Small Numerically Controlled Turning Machines and 
Turning Centres (18 pages, in Chinese) 
6. Description of content:   This standard specifies the safety requirements and/or measures to 
remove the hazards and to reduce the risks for general purpose small numerically controlled turning and turning centres.  
This standard applies to: 
− numerically controlled horizontal spindle turning machines and turning centres with 
distance between centres (BC) up to 2000 mm and with work piece clamping devices up to 500 mm outside diameter; 
− numerically controlled vertical turning mach ines, inverted spindle turning machines 
(including pick up machines) and turning centres with work piece clamping devices up to 500 mm outside diameter.   
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To protect human safety. 
8. Relevant documents:    
This standard modifies EN 12415: 2000. The main technical differences between the 
Chinese standard and the EN standard adopted are as follows: 
− Deleted the foreword of EN 12415:2000 ; 
− Deleted the last sentence in the scope clause of EN 12415:2000: "This standard 
applies to machines which are manufactured af ter the date of issue of this standard";
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  − Several GB standards replace some of th e EN and ISO standards in normative 
references ; 
− Added a clause of  "Concerning GB 15760-2004"; 
− The symbol " σb, σs, δs" replaces "Rm, R0.2, A" in Annex B (see B.2.2.2); and 
− "Annex ZA"  in EN 12415 is changed to "Annex E" in this standard. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    90 days after circulation by WTO Secretariat 
6 months after adoption  
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after circulation by WTO Secretariat 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
WTO/TBT National Notification and Enquiry Center of the People’s Republic of China 
Tel:   +(86) 10 82260618 
Fax:  +(86) 10 82262448 E_mail:  tbt@aqsiq.gov.cn