JAPAN: RADIO TRANSMITTING FACILITY FOR DIGITAL BROADCASTING The following notification is being circulated accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 95.271. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: JAPAN. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. 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 transmitting facility for digital broadcasting by communications satellite (HS: 85.25). 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Amendment to the Ordinance for Executing the Radio Law, the Ordinance for Regulating Radio Equipment, the Ordinance Stipulating the Standard System on Transmission for Ultrashort-Wave Broadcast Data Broadcast. Establishment of the Ordinance Stipulating the Standard System on Transmission for Digital Television Broadcast and the Ordinance Stipulating the Standard System on Transmission for Data Broadcast. (available in English, 2 pages). 6. Description of content: To establish the technical regulations on radio equipment and the Ordinance Stipulating the Standard System on Transmission for Digital Broadcasting by Communications Satellites. 7. Objective and rationale: To put digital broadcasting by communications satellites to practical use. 8. Relevant documents: The basic law is the Radio Law. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: February 1996. 10. Final date for comments: 10 November 1995. (289)

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