NETHERLANDS: INTERIM EXEMPTION FROM THE INSPECTION OBLIGATION REGARDING FAIRGROUND AND PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.97.183. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: NETHERLANDS. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above. 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): Fairground and playground equipment. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Interim Exemption from the Inspection Obligation Regarding Fairground and Playground Equipment. 6. Description of content: This Regulation postpones the inspection obligation for fairground and playground equipment by three months following entry into force of the Order on the Safety of Fairground and Playground Equipment. 7. Objective and rationale: According to the above-mentioned Order, new fairground and playground equipment shall be inspected by an appointed inspectorate (type inspection). Fairground and playground equipment which already has a foreign inspection certificate does not require another inspection if the foreign certificate has been equated with the certificate of a Dutch inspectorate. Applications may be submitted for the appointment of inspectorates and equalizations of certificates, upon which an assessment procedure of the application is set in motion. The appointments and equalizations, however, are running behind schedule, due to, inter alia, the gaps in the information accompanying the applications. As a result, it is likely that the majority of fairground and playground equipment will not be able to meet the inspection obligation when the aforementioned Order enters into effect. To alleviate these problems of capacity, it has been decided to grant temporary exemption from the inspection obligation to fairground and playground equipment which has been submitted for inspection or equalization of a foreign certificate. 8. Relevant documents: Dangerous Equipment Act; Order on the Safety of Fairground and Playground Equipment. 9. Proposed date of adoption: 21 May 1997; Proposed date of entry into force: 22 May 1997. 10. Final date for comments: 20 May 1997. 11. Texts available from: National enquiry point. (0128)

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