NETHERLANDS: RADIO LINK EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS The following notification has been received in GATT Document TBT/Notification G/95.256 dated 22 August 1995. 1. Member to agreement notifying: Netherlands. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Transport and Public Works. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): radio link equipment intended for transmitting and receiving digital signal and analogue video signals in the 18 GHZ band. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Specification of Conformity for Radio Equipment SV 04-06: radio link equipment operating in the 18 GHZ band. 6. Description of content: this draft contains minimum requirements with which the said radio link equipment shall comply. The above is useful, amongst other things, as a link between GSM-base stations and the telecommunications infrastructure. 7. Objective and rationale: the objective of the draft minimum requirements is to ensure that equipment is tested by recognized inspectorates based in the European member states or EFTA countries which are co-signatories to the treaty on the European economic area and is approved by appointed bodies. 8. Relevant Documents: Act Governing Telecommunication Facilities (Law Gazette 1988, 520): Order on Radio-Electrical Installations (Law Gazette 1988, 552): Order on Terminal Equipment (Law Gazette 1988, 553). 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 21 October 1995. 10. Final date for comments: 10 October 1995. (268)

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