GEN – 703.00. The application of the 2015/1535/EU (previously Directive 98/34/EC Directive) has also been extended to new standardisation work undertaken by National Standard Bodies (AENOR, AFNOR, DIN, UNI…) at national level. These notifications are registered centrally by the CEN Management Centre and a “Monthly Notifications Register” is circulated in English to the CEN Members and the European Commission. The National Standard Body generally provides the relevant associations with a copy of these updates.
The June 2016 “Monthly Notifications Register” included the following:
Country: Belgium
National Ref: prNBN S 21-208-3
Title: Fire safety in buildings – Ventilation openings in indoor staircases
Country: United Kingdom
National Ref : BS 0
Title: A standard for standards. Principles of standardization
Country: Italy
National Ref: UNI1601560
Title: Environmental Management of Products – Estimation, reporting and use of the uncertainty of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results – Requirements and guidelines
Scope: This standard provides requirements and guidelines for the estimation, reporting and use of the uncertainty of Life Cycle Assessments results. This standard considers the uncertainty originated from inventory data used in the LCA study.
Country: Sweden
National Ref: 308100
Title: Reference architecture for Internet of Things
Scope: This International Standard specifies the general IoT Reference Architecture in terms of defining System Characteristics, the Conceptual Model, Reference Model and Architecture Views for IoT
Technical Regulations
The 2015/1535/EU Directive compels the Member States to notify to the Commission and to each other all the draft technical regulations concerning products. The aim of this procedure is to avoid creation of unjustified barriers between Member States. These regulations may be found under:
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/tris/en/
Member States have 3 months to introduce comments or detailed opinions. Detailed opinions extend the status quo period with 3 months and oblige the issuing member state to argue or their legislation.
Please note that the website has been updated with new search facilities.
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Evaluation principles of the verification certificate: Heavy-duty HVAC flue elements |
2016-06-20 |
2016-09-21 |
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The Act on amendments to the act on construction products |
2016-06-29 |
2016-09-30 |
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Rules on inspections and testing of pressure equipment |
2016-05-23 |
2016-08-24 |
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Order of the Minister for Economic Affairs of [date], No WJZ /16098493, designating categories of production facilities for the promotion of sustainable energy production in autumn 2016 (Order designating categories for sustainable energy production in autumn 2016) |
2016-06-29 |
2016-06-30 |
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Amendment of the Order on national Economic Affairs subsidies and the 2016 Order on the publication of Economic Affairs subsidies in connection with the amendment, introduction and publication of a subsidy module for the market introduction of energy innovations |
2016-06-29 |
2016-06-30 |
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Use and control of pressurised equipment |
2016-07-01 |
2016-10-03 |
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Swedish Environmental Protection Agency regulations on measuring equipment for determining environmental charges for emissions of nitric oxides in energy production |
2016-06-22 |
2016-09-23 |
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Draft Implementing Decree of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic No …/2016 laying down the hot water temperature at the point of delivery and the rules for allocating the quantity of heat supplied in hot water and allocating the quantity of heat |
2016-04-28 |
2016-07-29 |
WTO TBT notifications
The notifications worldwide under WTO can be consulted on:
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tbt_e/tbt_e.htm
https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/FE_Browse/FE_B_S006.aspx
They are can also be consulted via the European Commission website
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/tbt/en/
Experience shows that not all WTO notifications appear on the EU website.
Energy Conservation Program: Certification, Compliance, Labeling, and Enforcement for Electric Motors and Small Electric Motors (34 pages, in English) |
2016-06-30 |
2016-07-25 |
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Compressors Corrigendum 1 |
2016-06-30 |
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Energy efficiency standardised houses Addendum 3 |
2016-06-23 |
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Compressors Addendum 1 |
2016-06-23 |
If any of these projects could cause problems or create barriers to your exports, industry and enterprises can make its views known to the European Commission.
Enterprises can send their comments on regulatory proposals of non-EU countries either directly to the EU TBT Enquiry Point (DG GROW B2, tel +32 2 295 63 96, + 32 2 299 80 43, email GROW-EU-TBT@ec.europa.eu) or via the Enquiry points of Member States of the EU. The addresses and emails can be found here under “Contact“.
The EU TBT Enquiry Point should receive comments no later than three weeks before the final deadline set by the notifying WTO member in the notification form! This is difficult to achieve because few companies monitor these notifications. Within Eurovent an effort is made to provide monthly updates, this than often results in a very short time (about a week) to respond as an association.
Companies are recommended to comment directly to the EU TBT Enquiry Point, in advance of a Eurovent comment to make sure the deadlines are met.
Content for opinion/comments
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Identification of enterprise/association introducing comments
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Reference to the notification
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Description of the problem, .e.g. because the measure discriminates amongst foreign and national products, because it is overly burdensome to achieve the objective pursued.