You can share your concerns either with the central TBT Enquiry Point of the EU or with any of the national TBT Enquiry Points of the 27 EU Member States. The contact details can be found here.
Some WTO Members provide the text of the draft measure at the moment of notification.
Unfortunately, it is too late to convey your concerns via the TBT channel. Ideally, the EU TBT Enquiry Point should receive your comments three weeks before the final deadline set by the notifying WTO member in the TBT notification form. These three weeks are necessary for the EU to assess your comments and coordinate internally.
The input received from industry is not published on the EU TBT database. However, the comments sent by the EU to the notifying country are, and this will allow you to check whether your concerns were shared by the European Commission and therefore appeared in its comments.
The Commission carefully considers all the contributions sent on TBT notifications. However, these contributions are not always relevant under the rules of the TBT Agreement or do not always reflect the EU policy in the area concerned. Therefore, not all the concerns of industry can be systematically included in the EU comments.
Your concerns on adopted legislation which contains barriers to trade can be communicated to the Commission via the Market Access Database (http://madb.europa.eu/mkaccdb2/indexPubli.htm). In addition, you should inform the EU TBT Enquiry Point about the lack of notification.
The TBT Agreement does not provide for a legally binding deadline for a reply to other WTO Members' comments. However, the EU always aims to reply to other WTO Members' comments in reasonable time and encourages them to do the same.
The WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade requires each WTO Member to set up an enquiry point. The main role of the enquiry point is to reply to all reasonable enquiries received from other WTO members or interested parties. In the EU, this obligation is fulfilled by one unit of the European Commission in the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.
The terms "non-tariff barriers" (or NTBs) designate obstacles to trade other than tariffs. Typical examples are quotas, import licensing systems, sanitary regulations, or prohibitions. Technical barriers are the largest category of non-tariff measures faced by exporters.
In the context of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, and from an EU point of view, third country means any non-EU country which is a member of the WTO.
A document that lays down mandatory product characteristics or their related processes and production methods. For example: requirements on product size, weight, composition, packaging, marking, labelling.
Any procedure used to determine that the relevant requirements of technical regulations or standards are fulfilled. For example: procedures for sampling, testing, inspection, evaluation, verification and assurance of conformity, registration, accreditation and approval.