Information procedure - Technical rulesText with EEA relevance
Date: 2004-04-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU law - national law, exchange of information, technical regulations, technical standard

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Information procedure - Technical rules

(2004/C 115/14)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a proce-
dure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on
Information Society services. (OJ L 204, 21.7.1998, p. 37; OJ L 217, 5.8.998, p. 18).

Notifications of draft national technical rules received by the Commission

Title

End of three-month
standstill period (2)

Reference (1)

2004/0094/F

2004/0095/F

Order amending the amended order of 29 May 1997 on materials and objects used in fixed
production, treatment and distribution installations for water intended for human consumption

Notice to those responsible for marketing materials and objects that come into contact with
water intended for human consumption, except for natural mineral waters, used in water
production, treatment and distribution installations

2004/0096/D

Guideline for wind turbines, effect and structural safety proof tests for the tower and founda-
tion, draft December 2003

2004/0097/D

2004/0098/E

Article 1(2)(3) sentence 2 and sentence 3 number 1, Article 1(4)(1)(3), Article 1(5) sentence 1,
number 1, Article 1(17)(1) and Article 4(1)(6) of the draft Act on the reform of food and
feedingstuffs legislation

Draft order establishing the method for taking samples from the carcases of Iberian pigs and
the analytical method for determining the composition of fatty acids from the total lipids in
the subcutaneous adipose tissue of the carcases of Iberian pigs

2004/0099/E

Draft Royal Decree on fertilisers

2004/0100/A

Technical contract terms RVS 11.321, top layer, asphalt layers, testing and billing

30.06.2004

30.06.2004

01.07.2004

01.07.2004

05.07.2004

02.07.2004

05.07.2004

2004/0101/A

Construction; RVS 11.063, fundamentals, testing methods, acceptance testing of asphalt roads

05.07.2004

2004/0102/A

Technical contract terms RVS 8S.01.41: Building materials, asphalt, requirements pertaining to
asphalt mixture

2004/0103/UK

Motor vehicles (construction and use)(amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

2004/0104/D

Amendments and supplements to the Specimen List of Technical Building Regulations of
February 2004

2004/0105/A

Technical contract terms RVS 8S.04.11, top layer, asphalt layers, requirements pertaining to
asphalt layers

2004/0106/A

Order of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government enacting safety provisions for gas appli-
ances (Upper Austrian Order on gas safety 2004)

2004/0107/S

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's administrative provisions (NFS 2004:xxx) on
measuring equipment for determining the environmental tax on emissions of nitric oxides in
energy production

2004/0108/GR

401 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — Maritime mobile transmitters and receivers
for use in MF and HF frequency bands

2004/0109/GR

403 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — On-board watchkeeping receivers for
digital selective calling (DSC) in MF, MF/HF and VHF maritime bands

2004/0110/GR

404 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — VHF maritime radiotelephone equipment
(including on internal waterways) for general communications and equipment for category ‘D’
digital selective calling (DSC)

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

(4)

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

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Reference (1)

Title

2004/0111/GR

405 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — VHF transmitters and receivers used as
GMDSS shore stations and other maritime mobile service applications

2004/0112/GR

408 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — Very high frequency (VHF) maritime
distress radio equipment operating in aeronautical frequency bands

2004/0113/GR

4091 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — Maritime radio positioning beacons
designed for use on 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz for homing applications only

2004/0114/GR

4092 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — Maritime radio positioning beacons
designed for use with the COSPAS-SARSAT system on 406.028 MHz

2004/0115/GR

4093 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — Maritime radio positioning beacons oper-
ating in the 1.6 GHz frequency band via geostatic satellites

2004/0116/GR

4101 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — Maritime mobile earth stations (MMES)
operating in the 1.5/1.6 GHz frequency bands providing low bit rate data communications
(LBRDC) for the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS)

End of three-month
standstill period (2)

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

05.07.2004

2004/0117/GR

411 v.1.0 radio equipment interface requirement — Maritime radar transponders (SART)

05.07.2004

2004/0118/F

Draft order on instruments for measuring the distance between vehicles or combined vehicles

06.07.2004

2004/0119/I

(Draft) Decree amending Annexes 1B, 1C and 3 to Law No 748 of 19 October 1984 on: ‘New
standards for the regulation of fertilisers’

2004/0120/FIN

Government bill to Parliament for a law on amending the Law on domain names

2004/0121/A

Order of the Salzburg Provincial Government on the safety requirements for gas fittings (Order
on gas safety)

2004/0122/I

Circular on: ‘Clarifications with regard to the compliance of mobile elevator platforms with the
essential safety requirements pursuant to Directive 98/37/EC relating to machinery’.

2004/0123/DK

Draft Technical Regulation No 4 of 15 July 2004 on the conduction of surveys and internal
inspections

2004/0124/F

2004/0125/A

Order approving provisions supplementing and amending the safety regulation against the
risks of fire and panic in establishments open to the public (use of insulation products in estab-
lishments open to the public)

Order of the Salzburg Provincial Government laying down detailed provisions on the interment
and transfer of corpses, the medical treatment certificate, the coroner's certificate and the coro-
ner's report (Salzburg Order on interment and transfer of corpses)

2004/0126/A

Burgenland Roads Act 2004

2004/0127/DK

Order on weapons and ammunition etc. (hereinafter referred to as the Weapons Order)

2004/0129/DK

Draft amending the Order on detailed regulations for vehicles 2004

2004/0130/DK

Order on special requirements for buses

2004/0131/UK

Merchant Shipping (small commercial vessel and pilot boat) Regulations 2004

2004/0132/UK

The Small Commercial Vessels and Pilot Boat Code of Practice

07.07.2004

08.07.2004

09.07.2004

12.07.2004

14.07.2004

08.07.2004

15.07.2004

15.07.2004

16.07.2004

21.07.2004

21.07.2004

21.07.2004

21.07.2004

(1) Year - registration number - Member State of origin.
(2) Period during which the draft may not be adopted.
(3) No standstill period since the Commission accepts the grounds of urgent adoption invoked by the notifying Member State.
(4) No standstill period since the measure concerns technical specifications or other requirements or rules on services linked to fiscal or financial measures, pursuant to the

third indent of the second paragraph of Article 1(11) of Directive 98/34/EC.
Information procedure closed.

(5)

The Commission draws attention to the judgment delivered on 30 April 1996 in the ‘CIA Security’, case C-
194/94 ([1996] ECR I-2201),
in which the Court of Justice ruled that Articles 8 and 9 of Directive
98/34/EC (formerly 83/189/EEC) are to be interpreted as meaning that individuals may rely on them
before national courts which must decline to apply a national technical regulation which has not been noti-
fied in accordance with the Directive.

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This judgment confirms the Commission's communication of 1 October 1986 (OJ C 245, 1.10.1986, p.
4).

Accordingly, breach of the obligation to notify renders the technical regulations concerned inapplicable,
and consequently unenforceable against individuals.

For more information on the notification procedure, please write to:

European Commission
DG Enterprise, Unit F1
B–1049 Brussels
e-mail: Dir83-189-Central@cec.eu.int
Also consult the website: http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/tris/

If you require any further information on these notifications, please contact the national departments listed
below:

List of national departments responsible for the management of Directive 98/34/EC

BELGIUM

BELNotif
Qualité et Sécurité
SPF Economie, PME, Classes moyennes et Energie
NG III – 4ème étage
boulevard du Roi Albert II / 16
B-1000 Brussels

Ms Pascaline Descamps
Tel. (32-2) 206 46 89
Fax (32-2) 206 57 46
E-mail: pascaline.descamps@mineco.fgov.be
paolo.caruso@mineco.fgov.be
General e-mail: belnotif@mineco.fgov.be
Website: http://www.mineco.fgov.be

DENMARK

Erhvervs- og Boligstyrelsen
Dahlerups Pakhus
Langelinie Allé 17
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø (or DK-2100 Copenhagen OE)

Ms Laila Østergren
Tel. (45) 35 46 66 89 (direct)
Fax (45) 35 46 62 03
E-mail: Ms Laila Østergren - loe@ebst.dk
Ms Birgitte Spühler Hansen - bsh@ebst.dk
Mutual mailbox for notification messages - noti@ebst.dk
Website: http://www.ebst.dk/Notifikationer

GERMANY

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
Referat XA2
Scharnhorststr. 34 - 37
D-10115 Berlin

Ms Christina Jäckel
Tel. (49-30) 2014 6353
Fax. (49-30) 2014 5379
E-mail: infonorm@bmwa.bund.de
Website: http://www.bmwa.bund.de

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GREECE

Ministry of Development
General Secretariat of Industry
Mesogeion 119
GR-101 92 ATHENS
Tel. (30) 210 696 98 63
Fax (30) 210 696 91 06

ELOT
Acharnon 313
GR-111 45 ATHENS
Tel. (30) 210 212 03 01
Fax (30) 210 228 62 19
E-mail: 83189in@elot.gr
Website: http://www.elot.gr

SPAIN

Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
Secretaría de Estado de Asuntos Europeos
Direccion General de Coordinacion del Mercado Interior y otras Políticas Comunitarias
Subdireccion General de Asuntos Industriales, Energéticos, de Transportes y Comunicaciones y de Medio Ambiente
C/Padilla, 46, Planta 2ª, Despacho: 6218
E-28006 MADRID

Mr Angel Silván Torregrosa
Tel. (34-91) 379 83 32

Ms Esther Pérez Peláez
Technical Advisor
E-mail: esther.perez@ue.mae.es
Tel. (34-91) 379 84 64
Fax (34-91) 379 84 01
E-mail: d83-189@ue.mae.es

FRANCE

Délégation interministérielle aux normes
Direction générale de l'Industrie, des Technologies de l'information et des Postes (DiGITIP)
Service des politiques d'innovation et de compétitivité (SPIC)
Sous-direction de la normalisation, de la qualité et de la propriété industrielle (SQUALPI)
DiGITIP 5
12, rue Villiot
F-75572 Paris Cedex 12

Ms Suzanne Piau
Tel. (33) 1 53 44 97 04
Fax (33) 1 53 44 98 88
E-mail: suzanne.piau@industrie.gouv.fr

Ms Françoise Ouvrard
Tel. (33) 1 53 44 97 05
Fax (33) 1 53 44 98 88
E-mail: francoise.ouvrard@industrie.gouv.fr

IRELAND

NSAI
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland

Mr Tony Losty
Tel.: (353-1) 807 38 80
Fax: (353-1) 807 38 38
E-mail: tony.losty@nsai.ie
Website: http://www.nsai.ie/

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ITALY

Ministero delle attività produttive
Dipartimento per le imprese
Direzione Generale per lo sviluppo produttivo e la competitività
Ufficio F1 - Ispettorato tecnico dell'industria
Via Molise 2
I-00187 Roma
Mr Vincenzo Correggia
Tel. (39) 06 47 05 22 05
Fax (39) 06 47 88 78 05
E-mail: vincenzo.correggia@minindustria.it
Mr Enrico Castiglioni

Tel. (39) 06 47 05 26 69
Fax (39) 06 47 88 77 48
E-mail: enrico.castiglioni@minindustria.it
E-mail: ispettoratotecnico@minindustria.flexmail.it
Website: http://www.minindustria.it

LUXEMBOURG

SEE - Service de l'Energie de l'Etat
34, avenue de la Porte-Neuve
BP 10
L-2010 Luxembourg

Mr J.P. Hoffmann
Tel. (352) 46 97 46 1
Fax (352) 22 25 24
E-mail: see.direction@eg.etat.lu
Website: http://www.see.lu

THE NETHERLANDS

Ministerie van Financiën
Belastingsdienst/Douane Noord
Team bijzondere klantbehandeling
Centrale Dienst voor In-en uitvoer
Engelse Kamp 2
Postbus 30003
9700 RD Groningen
Netherlands

Mr Ebel van der Heide
Tel. (31) 50 5 23 21 34

Ms Hennie Boekema
Tel. (31) 50 5 23 21 35

Ms Tineke Elzer
Tel. (31) 50 5 23 21 33
Fax (31) 50 5 23 21 59
General e-mail: Enquiry.Point@tiscali-business.nl
Enquiry.Point2@tiscali-business.nl

AUSTRIA

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
Abteilung C2/1
Stubenring 1
A-1010 Wien

Ms Brigitte Wikgolm
Tel. (43-1) 711 00 58 96
Fax (43-1) 715 96 51 or (43-1) 712 06 80
E-mail: post@tbt.bmwa.gv.at
Website: http://www.bmwa.gv.at

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PORTUGAL

Instituto Portugês da Qualidade
Rua Antonio Gião, 2
P-2829-513 Caparica

Ms Cândida Pires
Tel. (351-21) 294 82 36 or 81 00
Fax (351-21) 294 82 23
E-mail: c.pires@mail.ipq.pt
General e-mail: not9834@mail.ipq.pt
Website: http://www.ipq.pt

FINLAND

Kauppa-ja teollisuusministeriö
(Ministry of Trade and Industry)
Visitors' address:
Aleksanterinkatu 4
FIN-00171 Helsinki
and
Katakatu 3
FIN-00120 Helsinki

Postal address:
PO Box 32
FIN-00023 Government

Mr Henri Backman
Tel.: (358-9) 1606 36 27
Fax: (358-9) 1606 46 22
E-mail: henri.backman@ktm.fi

Ms Katri Amper
General e-mail: maaraykset.tekniset@ktm.fi
Website: http://www.ktm.fi

SWEDEN

Kommerskollegium
(National Board of Trade)
Box 6803
Drottninggatan 89
S–113 86 Stockholm

Ms Kerstin Carlsson
Tel. (46) 86 90 48 82 or (46) 86 90 48 00
Fax (46) 86 90 48 40 or (46) 83 06 759
E-mail: kerstin.carlsson@kommers.se
General e-mail: 9834@kommers.se
Website: http://www.kommers.se

UNITED KINGDOM

Department of Trade and Industry
Standards and Technical Regulations Directorate 2
151 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1 W 9SS
United Kingdom

Mr Philip Plumb
Tel. (44-207) 215 14 88
Fax (44-207) 215 15 29
E-mail: philip.plumb@dti.gsi.gov.uk
General e-mail: 9834@dti.gsi.gov.uk
Website: http://www.dti.gov.uk/strd

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EFTA - ESA

EFTA Surveillance Authority
Rue de Trêves 74
B-1040 Brussels
Ms Adinda Batsleer
Tel. (32-2) 286 18 71
Fax (32-2) 286 18 00
E-mail: aba@eftasurv.int
E-mail: DRAFTTECHREGESA@eftasurv.int
Website: http://www.eftasurv.int

EFTA
Goods Unit
EFTA Secretariat
Rue de Trêves 74
B-1040 Brussels
Ms Kathleen Byrne
Tel. (32-2) 286 17 34
Fax (32-2) 286 17 42
E-mail: DRAFTTECHREGEFTA@efta.int
kathleen.byrne@efta.int
Website: http://www.efta.int

TURKEY

Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade
General Directorate of Standardisation for Foreign Trade
Inönü Bulvari n° 36
06510
Emek - Ankara
Turkey
Mr Saadettin Doğan
Tel. (90) 58 99
(90-312) 204 81 02
Fax: (90-312) 212 87 68
E-mail: dtsabbil@dtm.gov.tr
Website: http://www.dtm.gov.tr