Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - Under paragraph C of the WTO TBT Code of Good Practice - Notification of acceptance - United States

NOTIFICATION

UNDER PARAGRAPH C OF THE WTO TBT CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

Under paragraph C of the Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption and Application of Standards contained in Annex 3 to the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, "Standardizing bodies that have accepted or withdrawn from this Code shall notify this fact to the ISO/IEC Information Centre in Geneva." The following notification conveyed to the Secretariat from the ISO/IEC Information Centre is being circulated for the information of Members.

 

Country/Customs Territory/Regional Arrangement: United States of America

Name of standardizing body: RTCA, Inc.

Address of standardizing body: 1150 18th Street NW, Suite 910, Washington, DC 20036

Telephone: +1 202 330 0650

Fax:

Email: tmcvenes@rtca.org

Internet:

Type of standardizing body:

 

 ] central governmental

 ] local governmental

[ X ] non-governmental

Scope of current and expected standardization activities: RTCA's historic role in aviation has been to provide the forum and consensus industry voice for government/industry cooperation on concepts of operations for the air traffic control system along with the standards and guidelines needed for implementing new systems in aircraft. As technological advances leading to improved safety and efficiency of the NAS grew to require deployment of integrated operational capabilities with components both in the cockpit and on the ground, the need for enhanced public-private partnership has grown.

Date: 14 December 2021