. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/306 
14 January 2010  
 (10-0169) 
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 UNION
  
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 
EU-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 [   ], 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):  None. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft working 
document of a Commission service prepar ing a Commission Deci sion on the harmonised 
technical conditions of use in the 790-862 MHz frequency band for terres trial systems capable 
of providing electronic communicatio ns services in the Community (11 pages, in English).      
6. Description of content:   The foreseen draft Commission Decision on harm onised technical 
conditions of use in the 790-862 MHz band contains  technical requirements that have to be 
fulfilled for the use of spectrum by the relevant  systems, in order to avoid interference with 
adjacent band services  and among themselves.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
This foreseen decision will facilitate the rollout of wireless broadband communications 
particularly in rural areas of Europe using co mmon technical conditions. It is not the objective 
to stipulate a harmonise d date, rather EU Member States may decide individually whether and 
at what point in time they designate or ma ke available the band 790-862 MHz for networks 
other than high-power broadcasting networ ks along the set harmoni sed condition of use.  
8. Relevant documents:   Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, 
the Council, the European Economic and So cial Committee and the Committee of the 
Regions - Transforming the digital dividend in to social benefits and economic growth - 
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Standards for LTE (currently under prepara tion in 3GPP) and WiMAX (currently under 
preparation in IEEE) are being develope d to include the 790-862 MHz as a possible 
deployment option. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    End of March 2010 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU  
10. Final date for comments:  60 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 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2010/tbt/eec/10_0096_00_e.pdf