WTO 美国通报 G/TBT/N/USA/1681

 WTO.美国通报关于NHTSA FMVSS试验程序对认证制造商适用性的通知
编号：G/TBT/N/USA/1681
解释通知；征求意见——除非完全符合所有适用的联邦机动车安全标准（FMVSS），否则《国家交通和机动车安全法》（安全法）禁止销售、制造、进口或引入机动车或机动车设备。FMVSS设定了车辆或设备项目必须达到的最低性能阈值，以满足安全需求。证明车辆或车辆的经销商或汽车设备制造商也符合汽车安全法案的要求。本通知重新确立了NHTSA的长期立场，即FMVSS试验条件和程序适用于NHTSA的符合性试验，并且制造商无需确保其车辆的设计能够确保车辆能够按照作为自我认证条件的标准进行测试。本通知还讨论了国家公路交通安全管理局对具有新颖或创新设计的车辆的执行情况，这些设计排除了使用国家公路交通安全管理局的FMVSS试验程序进行FMVSS合规性试验的可能性。本通知取代了该机构先前做出的相反声明，包括NHTSA在2016年给谷歌公司的解释函中的声明，声明制造商不能有效地证明FMVSS合规性，除非NHTSA可以使用FMVSS测试程序验证合规性。

英文原文：
Notice of interpretation; request for comments - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Safety Act) prohibits the sale, manufacture for sale, import or introduction into interstate commerce of a motor vehicle or item of motor vehicle equipment, unless fully compliant with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSS). The FMVSS set a threshold of performance that a vehicle or equipment item must attain, at a minimum, to meet the need for safety. The Safety Act also requires a manufacturer or distributor of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment to certify that the vehicle or equipment complies with applicable FMVSS. This notice reestablishes NHTSA's longstanding position that the FMVSS test conditions and procedures apply to NHTSA's compliance testing, and that manufacturers are not required to ensure that their vehicles are designed in such a manner as to ensure that the vehicles are capable of being tested pursuant to such standards as a condition of self-certification. This notice also discusses NHTSA's enforcement with respect to vehicles with novel or innovative designs that preclude them from being tested for FMVSS compliance using NHTSA's FMVSS test procedures. This notice supersedes prior contrary statements the Agency has made--including those in NHTSA's 2016 letter of interpretation to Google, Inc.--stating that manufacturers could not validly certify FMVSS compliance unless NHTSA could verify compliance using the FMVSS test procedures.

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