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(G/TBT/1/Rev.13), as may be revised, issued by the WTO TBT
Committee.

2. Upon written request, a Party shall provide to the requesting
Party, if already available, the full text or summary of its notified
technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures in
the English language. If unavailable, the Party shall provide to
the requesting Party a summary stating the requirements of the
notified technical regulations and conformity assessment
procedures in the English language, within a reasonable period of
time agreed by the Parties concerned and, if possible, within 30
days after receiving the written request. In implementing the
preceding sentence, the contents of the summary shall be
determined by the requested Party.

3. Each Party shall, on request of another Party, provide information
regarding the objectives of, and rationale for, a technical
regulation or conformity assessment procedure that the
requested Party has adopted or is proposing to adopt.

4. Each Party shall normally allow 60 days from the date of
notification to the WTO in accordance with paragraph 9 of Article
2 and paragraph 6 of Article 5 of the TBT Agreement for the other
Parties to provide comments in writing, except where urgent
problems of safety, health, environmental protection, or national
security arise or threaten to arise. Each Party shall take the
comments of another Party into account and shall endeavour to
provide responses to those comments upon request.

5. Each Party shall allow persons of another Party to participate in
consultation procedures that are available to the general public
for the development of technical regulations, national standards
and conformity assessment procedures by the Party, subject to
its laws and regulations, on terms no less favourable than those
accorded to its own persons.

6. When a Party detains an imported consignment, at the point of
entry due to non-compliance with a technical regulation or a
conformity assessment procedure, it shall notify the importer or its
representative, as soon as possible, the reasons for the detention.

7. Unless otherwise provided in this Chapter, any information or
explanation requested by a Party pursuant to this Chapter shall
be provided by the requested Party, in print or electronically,
within a reasonable period of time agreed by the Parties
concerned and, if possible, within 60 days. Upon request, the

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