NETHERLANDS -- REGULATION CONTAINING MEASURING EQUIPMENT PROVISIONS OF THE VEHICLE REGULATION. DRAFT ENTITLED "SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS REGARDING EXHAUST FUME TEST EQUIPMENT" The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.97.21. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: NETHERLANDS. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: RDW -- Centrum voor Voertuigtechniek en Informatie. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above: National Enquiry Point. 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): Exhaust fume test equipment; this includes instruments used for measuring the content of carbon monoxide (CO) in the exhaust fumes of engines with electric ignition running at idle or increased rpm, as well as for determining the lambda values stipulated in the Regulation governing fuel mixtures, with a view to carrying out the periodic tests stipulated in Directive 92/55/EEC. 5. Title, number ofpages and language(s) of the notified document: Regulation Containing Measuring Equipment Provisions of the Vehicle Regulation. Draft entitled "Specific Requirements Regarding Exhaust Fume Test Equipment". 6. Description of content: The draft entitled "Specific Requirements Regarding Exhaust Fume Test Equipment" governs the technical requirements to be set with regard to test equipment used for measuring the percentage CO and lambda volume in the exhaust fumes of engines with electric ignition. The requirements are based on International Recommendation 99 of the OIML (International Organization for Legal Metrology) and on the requirements of other EU members States. 7. Objective and rationale: The present technical requirements regarding CO meters have been adopted as regards their content into the above-mentioned draft; these requirements were already based on OIML-R99. The OIML requirements have also been adopted as regards 002 and HC; in the case of 02, the Regulation is based on the international (technical) supplement to OIML-R99 which has been effectively accepted in the interim period. As regards the lambda calculation, the generally used "shortened Brettschneider formula" has been proposed, for which the above-mentioned gas constituents are necessary. These Regulations enable Directive 92/55/EEC regarding engines with electric ignition to be fully and properly implemented. 8. Relevant documents: Measuring Equipment Provision of the Vehicle Regulation; Draft Amendment to the Measuring Equipment Provision (Chapter I and II, resp. General and Recognition and Certification) regarding the measuring of opacity. 9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 April 1997; Proposed date of entry into force: 1 July 1997. 10. Final date for comments: 28 February 1997. 11. Text available from: National enquiry point. (0035)

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