. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/FRA/101 
20 May 2009 
 (09-2464) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   French 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   FRANCE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Bureau de la Qualité de l'Air  (Office for Air Quality) 
Direction Générale de la Prévention des Risques 
MEEDDATT 
Arche de la Défense – Parois Nord 92055 PARIS LA DEFENSE Cedex 
Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, e-mail and website 
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):   Installations for the dry 
cleaning and treatment of textiles or clothing and their operators. 
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:   Order relating to the 
general prescriptions applying to installations  classified for environmental protection which 
are subject to declaration under heading No. 2345 on the use of solvents for the dry cleaning and treatment of textiles or clothing (49 pages). 
6. Description of content:   Dry cleaning installations are classified installations, covered by 
heading No. 2345 of the French nomenclature, currently regulated by the Ministerial Order of 2 May 2002.  The draft new order aims to  strengthen the regulation of "dry cleaning" 
installations in order, inter alia , to ensure compliance with Directive 99/13/EC, in 
particular by including provisions on: 
- Certain prescriptions needing specific provisions to cover, in particular, ventilation 
and the requirement for permanent operation of the installations; 
- strengthening the technical prescriptions applying to machines, and the introduction 
of an alternative to NF machine certification; 
- the requirement for periodic in spection of dry cleaning facilities; 
- personnel training. G/TBT/N/FRA/101 
Page 2  
 
  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The draft Order steps up the regulation so as to ensure conformity with Directive 99/13/EC, 
while taking into account a request from the European Commission to amend the Order of 
2 May 2002 in order to delete any provisions that might obstruct the free movement of dry 
cleaning machines. 
8. Relevant documents:   The Environment Code, particularly Articles L.512-10, L.512-11, 
and R.512-52, R.512-55 to R.512-60; 
Council Directive 1999/13/EC of 11 March 1999 on  the limitation of emissions of volatile 
organic compounds due to the use of organic so lvents in certain activities and installations, 
particularly Article 5 and Annex IIA. 
Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliame nt and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying 
down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   August 2009 
Proposed date of entry into force:   December 2009 
10. Final date for comments:   July 2009 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available of the other body: 
National Enquiry Point 
CINORTECH AFNOR 11 avenue Francis de Pressensé 
93571 SAINT- DENIS –LA PLAINE cedex 
and: here