SWITZERLAND: ROAD VEHICLES The following notification has been received in GATT Document TBT/Notification 95.4 dated 11 January 1995. 1. Party to agreement notifying: Switzerland. 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Justice and Police, Federal Office of Police. 3. Notified under Article 2.5.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): all road vehicles; incl. bicycles, motorcycles, cars, lorries, buses, agricultural vehicles and trailers. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Ordinance About The Homologation and Type Approval of Road Vehicles. 6. Description of content: Harmonization of the Swiss regulations with EU-council directives mainly in the field of homologation and type approval of road vehicles. 7. Objective and rationale: to simplify the homologation and type approval of road vehicles and to adapt the Swiss technical requirements with the regulation in the EU. 8. Relevant documents: Ordinance on the Admission of People and Vehicles in the Traffic of 27 October 1976. Ordinance on Insurances Applicable to the Traffic of 20 November 1959. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 1 October 1995. 10. Final date for comments: 23 February 1995. (031)

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