Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - Switzerland - Motor vehicles

NOTIFICATION

The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.

 

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Notifying Member: SWITZERLAND

If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible:

Office fédéral des routes, OFROU (Federal Roads Office)

3003 Bern

Website: https://www.astra.admin.ch/astra/fr/home.html

Tel.: (+41) 58 462 94 11

info@astra.admin.ch

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:

Secrétariat d'État à l'économie, SECO (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs)

Holzikofenweg 36

3003 Bern

tbt@seco.admin.ch

www.seco.admin.ch

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver (HS code: 8702); Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars (HS code: 8703); Motor vehicles for the transport of goods (HS code: 8704); Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05 (HS code: 8706); Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof (HS code: 8716).

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Modification de l'ordonnance concernant les exigences techniques requises pour les véhicules routiers (OETV) (Amendment to the Ordinance on technical requirements for motor vehicles) (30 pages, in French; 29 pages, in German and Italian)

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Description of content: The proposed revision involves the general harmonization of Swiss technical requirements for vehicles with the new Regulation (EU) 2019/2144. It mainly concerns measures aimed at improving road safety. The aim is primarily to make the new EU requirements on driving support systems and control systems, as well as other requirements aimed at improving the safety of motor vehicles, mandatory in Switzerland (see, in particular, Articles 102a, 103, 104a, 104b and 105).

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of human health or safety; harmonization; reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade.

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Relevant documents:

Explanatory report (see, in particular, sections 1.1 and 1.2)

German: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2022/42/cons_1/doc_7/de/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-dl-proj-2022-42-cons_1-doc_7-de-pdf-a.pdf

French: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2022/42/cons_1/doc_7/fr/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-dl-proj-2022-42-cons_1-doc_7-fr-pdf-a.pdf

Italian: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2022/42/cons_1/doc_7/it/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-dl-proj-2022-42-cons_1-doc_7-it-pdf-a.pdf

Consultation procedure:

French: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/fr/consultation-procedures/ongoing#https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2022/42/cons_1

German: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/de/consultation-procedures/ongoing#https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2022/42/cons_1

Italian: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/it/consultation-procedures/ongoing#https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2022/42/cons_1

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Proposed date of adoption: Summer 2023

Proposed date of entry into force: Autumn 2023

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Final date for comments: 60 days from the date of notification

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

Swiss Information Center for Technical Rules (switec)

Sulzerallee 70

8404 Winterthur

Tel.: (+41) 52 224 54 55

Fax: (+41) 52 224 54 75

Email: switec@snv.ch