. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ESP/29 
27 March 2006 
 (06-1366) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  SPAIN
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   Generalitat 
Valenciana  (Government of the Autonomous Community of Valencia) 
2. Agency responsible:   Presidencia. Dirección General de Cooperación al Desarrollo y 
Relaciones Externas  (Office of the President. Directorate-General of Development 
Cooperation and External Relations) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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 [     ], 2.10.1 [     ], 5.6.2 [     ], 5.7.1 [     ], other:   Article 3.2 of 
the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade 
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Amusement and gaming 
machines  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Reglamento de 
Máquinas Recreativas y de Azar  (Regulations on amusement and gaming machines) 
(37 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  
- Purpose:  Regulations governing gamb ling activities using amusement and gaming 
machines 
- Scope of application:  Community of Valencia - Exclusions under the Regulations  - Definition, characteristics and classification of  machines:  type a, type b and type c 
- Registration of models 
- Manufacturing, import and marketing regime 
- Operating regime:  machine identification - Operators:  definition, registration and requirements - Machine installation and operation - Premises authorized to install and operate machines 
- Documentation relating to and use of machines 
- Penalty regime:  competence, penalty pro cedure and powers of the relevant authority G/TBT/N/ESP/29 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
 
 Ongoing developments in th e amusement and gaming machine subsector, as a result 
of both technological innovations and changing business realities, together  with the need for 
greater legal certainty, make the appr oval of new regulations advisable. 
8. Relevant documents: 
 
Ley de la Generalitat Valenciana 4/1988, de 3 de junio, del juego en la Comunidad 
Valenciana (Law of the Government of the Autonomous Community of Valencia 
No. 4/1988 of 3 June on gambling in the Community of Valencia), Diari Oficial de la 
Generalitat Valenciana , D.O.G.V.  (Official Journal of the Autonomous Community of 
Valencia) No. 842 of 9 June 1988); 
Ley 14/2005, de 23 de diciembre, de medidas fiscales, que modifica la ley 4/1988 en el 
capítulo VII artículo 57 y 58 (Law No. 14/2005 of 23 December on tax measures, amending 
Articles 57 and 58 of Chapter VII of Law No. 4/1988); 
Decree ( Decreto ) No. 155/1998 of 29 September of the Government of the Community of 
Valencia (notification to the Commission:  No. 98/0089/e) (Official Journal No. 3.351 of 
15 October 1998), extended by the Order ( Orden ) of 9 December 1998 and amended by 
Decree ( Decreto ) No. 192/2001 of 18 December of the Government of the Community of 
Valencia (Official Journal No . 4.153 of 21 December 2002). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    June 2006 
On the day following publication 
10. Final date for comments:   30 May 2006 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and E-mail and Web site add resses, if available, of other body: