. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/SGP/5 
15 August 2008 
 (08-3874) 
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:   SINGAPORE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   National Environment Agency 
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):   Motor vehicle namely a 
mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adap ted for use on public roads which are part 
of HS87.03 and HS87.04.  The motor vehicle (not being motor cycles or second-hand goods) shall be constructed for the carriage of: 
(a) not more than 7 passengers (exclusive of the driver) and having an unladen mass 
 not exceeding 3,000 kilograms; or 
(b) goods and having an unladen mass not exceeding 2,500 kilograms. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:    
Environmental Protection and Management (Registrable Goods) Order (in English). 
Environmental Protection and Management (Energy Conservation) Regulations (in 
English). 
Both documents can found online at ht tp://agcvldb.agc.gov.sg/html/homepage.html 
(The existing Environmental Protection and Management (Registrab le Goods) Order and 
Environmental Protection and Management (E nergy Conservation) Regulations will be 
amended to extend the mandatory registration and labelling requirements to motor vehicles 
as defined in (4) above from Apr 09.) 
6. Description of content:   All motor vehicles covered must  be registered and labelled to 
provide information on their leve ls of fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions if they are to be 
supplied in Singapore.  In order to register, the motor vehicles covered must be tested to the 
following test method, which would be used to determine their fuel consumption and CO 2 
emissions under urban, extra-urba n and combined driving conditions: 
 
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  Motor Vehicle   Type  Applicable Test Method 
Motor Vehicle  All  Test method stipulated in UN ECE Regulation 101 
     (Revision 2 with amendment 1) for measuring fuel      consumption and CO
2 emission 
A copy of the UN ECE Regulation is available at: 
www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs101-120.html 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To provide the motor vehicle’s fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions to consumers via 
labels. 
8. Relevant documents:   Notice will be published in the Republic of Singapore’s Government 
Gazette when adopted. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }April 2009 
10. Final date for comments:   6 October 2008 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [    ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Ms Wendy Wong 
Executive Engineer Resource Conservation Department 
40 Scotts Road 
#11-00 Environment Building Singapore 228231 Tel.: +(65) 6731-9515 Fax:  +(65) 6734-6956 
Email:     wendy_wong@nea.gov.sg 
Website:   www.nea.gov.sg