G/TBT/N/TUR/188  
16 August 2021  
(21-6241) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  TURKEY   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Industry and Technology  
DG for EU and Foreign Affairs  
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 in dicated if different from above:   
Please submit comments to Turkey WTO TBT Enquiry Point, E -mail: tbt@ticaret.gov.tr   
 
Turkey -TBT Enquiry Point  
Ministry of Trade  
DG of Product Safety and Inspection  
Sogutozu Mah. 21 80. Sk. No:63 06530 Çankaya -Ankara / Turkey  
Tel: +90 (312) 204 89 37 / 89 52  
Fax: +90 (312) 212 87 68  
E-mail: tbt@ticaret.gov.tr  
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):  
Notification on monitoring gaseous pollutants arising from internal combustion engines 
installed in of f-road mobile machinery and in use  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Notification on 
Monitoring Gaseous Pollutants Arising from Internal Combustion Engines Installed in Off -
Road Mobile Machinery and in Use (2017/655/AB) ( 37 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:   
(1) This Notification covers the emission limits for all engines in the categories specified 
in the first paragraph of Article 5 of the afore mentioned Regulation and for gas and 
particulate pollutants a rising from the engines of these machines, which are installed or 
intended to be fitted to mobile machines used outside the highway determined by The 
Regulation on Gas and Particulate Pollutant Emission Limits and Requirements 
Regarding Type Approval for I nternal Combustion Engines Installed on Moving Machines 
Used Outside the Highway (2016/1628 / EU),  
(2) This Notification covers and applies to monitoring of the gaseous pollutant emissions 
from the following categories of in -service engines of emission Sta ge V installed in non -
road mobile machinery:  
(a) NRE -v-5; 
(b) NRE -v-6. 
(3) This Notification applies to engine manufacturer.  G/TBT/N/TUR/188  
 
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  This Notification does not apply to original equipment manufacturer.  
(4) This Notification does not apply where the manufacturer de monstrates to the 
approval authority that it is not able to obtain access to any engine installed in a non -
road mobile machinery for the purposes of in -service monitoring.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:   
The objective of this Notification is in order to add the framework determined by the 
Regulation on Gas and Particulate Pollutant Emission Limits for Internal Combustion 
Engines and Requirements Regarding Type Approval (2016/1628 / EU) publish ed in the 
Official Gazette dated 11/09/2020 and numbered 31241,establishes detailed 
arrangements with regard to the selection of engines, test procedures and reporting of 
results relating to monitoring of gaseous pollutant emissions from in -service interna l 
combustion engines installed in non -road mobile machinery using portable emission 
measurement systems; Protection of human health or safety; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
This Notification, considering Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/6 55 of 19 
December 2016supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 of the European Parliament 
and of the Council with regard to monitoring of gaseous pollutant emissions from in -
service internal combustion engines installed in non -road mobile machinery has been  
prepared within the framework of harmonization with the EU legislation.  
This Notification was prepared pursuant to; Article 4 of Law No. 7223 on Product Safety 
and Technical Regulations Law dated 12/03/2021 and 31066 and Articles 385 and 388 
of the Presid ential Decree No. 1 on the Presidential Organization published in the  
Official Gazette dated 10/7/2018 and numbered 30474 and the Regulation on Gas and 
Particulate Pollutant Emission Limits for Internal Combustion Engines and Requirements 
Regarding Type Ap proval (2016/1628 / EU) published in the Official Gazette dated 
11/09/2020 and numbered 31241.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  The Notification will be adopted upon its publication.  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Provisions of this Notification shall apply from date 
of publication.  
10. Final date for comments:  31 August 2021; The relevant legislation will be put into 
effect within the scope of harmonization with the EU legislation.  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/TUR/21_5224_ 00_e.pdf