. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/241 
19 January 2009  
 (09-0183) 
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:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
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 indicated if different from above :   
European Commission, 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point, Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43, E-mail:   ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/
  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 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):  Tyres      
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a Directive 
of the European Parliament and of the Council on labelling of tyres with respect to fuel efficiency and other essential parameters (COM (2008) 779) (29 pages, in English, French and 
Spanish).      
6. Description of content:  This proposal for a Directive conc erns creating a labelling scheme 
for tyre parameters including a grading of fuel efficiency and wet grip as well as the display 
of the external rolling noise measured value.  The scope of this proposal for a Directive 
includes C1, C2 and C3 tyres as defined in th e proposal for a Regulation on general safety of 
motor vehicles (COM (2008) 316). (COM(2008) 316 was notified to the WTO under No 
G/TBT/N/EEC/206.)  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
aim is to allow end-users to make an informed choice when buying tyres - thereby pulling the 
market towards more fuel efficient, safer and lo w noise tyres in order to reduce road transport 
fuel consumption and externalities (CO 2 and pollutant emissions,  traffic noise and road 
accidents).   G/TBT/N/EEC/241 
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  8. Relevant documents:    
COM(2008) 316  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0316:FIN:EN:PDF
 
Impact Assessment:  SEC(2008) 2860 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2008:2860:FIN:EN:PDF   
Summary of the Impact Assessment:  SEC(2008) 2861 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2008:2861:FIN:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    2010 
Twentieth day from publica tion in the Official 
Journal of the EU (about a month after adoption approx.)  
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or addre ss, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu 
The text is available on the EC-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
and at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex UriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0779:FIN:EN:PDF
 
http://eur-lex.europ a.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0779:FIN:FR:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europ a.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CO M:2008:0779:FIN:ES:PDF  
and at: http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/EEC/09_0073_00_e.pdf