NETHERLANDS: FAIRGROUND AND PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 96.113. 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 Sport 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: Order on the Safety of Fairground and Playground Equipment (19 pages). 6. Description of content: The draft Order on the Safety of Fairground and Playground Equipment has been amended in a number of instances in comparison with the original notified draft dated 11 August 1995. In addition to editorial changes, these amendments include clarifications in the explanatory note and changes in terms of content of the following articles. Article 3, second paragraph, governing exceptional provisions regarding foreign equipment which is operated temporarily in the Netherlands, is limited to equipment-specific requirements of the Order. Instructions for use of the relevant equipment, such as the availability of a Dutch instruction manual or the keeping of a log book, are deemed as equipment-specific requirements and will, as such, fall under the scope of exceptional provisions. The duty to look after the equipment during use, on the part of the owner or holder of the equipment (e.g. during installation and maintenance), shall, however, remain applicable in full in respect of foreign licensees. Article 25 has been extended by a second paragraph. Foreign fairground and playground equipment temporarily used in the Netherlands shall be subject to registration with the Regional Health Protection Inspectorate at 's-Hertogenbosch at least 2 x 24 hours prior to each initial mounting or installation of the equipment on Dutch territory. This registration duty is absolutely vital in order to enable the aforesaid inspectorate to provisionally assess whether the relevant foreign equipment actually meets equivalent requirements. Article 14, first paragraph, stipulates that the instructions for use which are required to accompany the equipment, shall be drafted in Dutch. 7. Objective and rationale: The draft Order has been amended in line with the advice which the Fairground and Playground Safety Regulation Commission, being an advisory body in which social interest groups are represented, has issued regarding the draft. 8. Relevant documents: Number of previous notification: G/TBT/Notif.95.278. 9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 July 1996. Proposed date of entry into force: Six months after date of adoption. 10. Final date for comments: 24 May 1996. (130)

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