Standardisation
GEN – 764.00. 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 March 2017 “Monthly Notifications Register” included the following:
Country: Norway
National Ref: NS 5835
Title: Societal security – Protection against intentional undesirable actions – Protecting confidential information in construction projects
Scope: The standard describes the recommended methods of protecting confidential information
in construction projects
Country: Netherlands
National Ref: NTA 8800:2017 Concept nl
Title: Energy performance of buildings – Determination method
Scope: NTA 8800 contains the determination method for the energy performance of buildings.
Country: United Kingdom
National Ref: BS 8895-3
Title: Material efficiency. Code of practice for Technical Design
Country: United Kingdom
National Ref: BS 10754-1
Title: Information technology – Software Trustworthiness. Part 1 – Governance and management specification
Country: Spain
National Ref: PNE 192007-1
Title: Procedures for the regulatory inspection. Low voltage electrical installations. Part 1:
General requirements
Scope: Describes the methodology for the authorised body to perform both the initial and the
periodic inspections foreseen in the current legislation to check compliance with the safety
mandatory requirements applicable to the low voltage electrical installations.
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 of late translations may not always be available.
There have been no relevant notifications in the first weeks of January.
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Belgium |
Royal Decree amending Article 104 of the general regulations for electrical installations |
2017-03-29 |
2017-06-30 |
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France |
Order on the characteristics of the gas oil and low-temperature gas oil referred to as gas oil B10 |
2017-04-06 |
2017-07-07 |
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Netherlands |
[NL] Wijziging van de Regeling nationale EZ-subsidies en Regeling openstelling EZ-subsidies 2017 in verband met de openstelling van de subsidiemodule Marktintroductie energie-innovaties en enkele wijzigingen ervan [NL] |
2017-04-18 |
2017-04-19 |
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Netherlands |
Order amending the Order on the energy performance fee for rental housing in connection with the option for lessors and tenants to agree on an energy performance fee for a dwelling connected to an external heating network or for a dwelling at which heat is generated in a manner that is not fully sustainable |
2017-04-07 |
2017-07-10 |
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.
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Draft Decree of Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources concerning Implementation of Minimum Energy Performance Standard and Inclusion Label of Energy Saving for Electric Motor Devices (11 pages, in Indonesian) |
2017-04-06 |
2017-06-05 |
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Draft Decree of Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources No.07 Year 2015 concerning Implementation of Minimum Energy Performance Standard and Inclusion Label of Energy Saving for Refrigerator Devices (15 pages, in Indonesian) |
2017-04-06 |
2017-06-05 |
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Proyecto de la Normativa Técnica Sanitaria Ecuatoriana sustitutiva para alimentos procesados, plantas procesadoras de alimentos, establecimientos de distribución, comercialización, transporte de alimentos y establecimientos de alimentación colectiva (Draft Substitute Ecuadorian Sanitary Technical Regulation on processed foods, food processing plants, establishments for the distribution, marketing and transportation of food, and mass catering establishments) (89 pages, in Spanish) |
2017-03-22 |
2017-04-17 |
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.
