. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ZAF/38
20 January 2004
(04-0172)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Department of Trade and Industry           
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:
South Africa WTO/TBT Enquiry Point,
Standards Information Centre
Standards South Africa, a division of SABS
Private Bag X191Pretoria
0001
South Africa,
Tel:  +27 12 428 6666, Fax:  +27 12 428 6928, E-mail:  info@sabs.co.za,
Web site:  www.sabs.co.za
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   HS: 87.16 CCCN:
ICS:  43.080.10
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Amendment of
Compulsory Specification for Vehicles of Category O3 and O4 (2 Pages, in English)
6. Description of content:   Amends the compulsory specification for vehicles of category O3
and O4, by withdrawal of the existing "sched ule-operative dates" and replaces it with the
"schedule-operative dates" as set out in the attached Schedule, with effect from date of
publication.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Consumer safety
8. Relevant documents:
Amendment to VC 8027
Government Gazette No. 25812, Notice No. R1780, Date 12 December 2003G/TBT/N/ZAF/38
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9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }23 December 2003
10. Final date for comments:   N/A
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body: