19 U.S.C. § 2576b — Subpart definitions

Page 754 TITLE 19—CUSTOMS DUTIES § 2576b (Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 472, as added Pub. L. 103–182, title III, § 351(a), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2120.) § 2576b. Subpart definitions Notwithstanding section 2571 of this title, for purposes of this subpart— (1) Approval procedure The term ‘‘approval procedure’’ means any registration, notification, or other mandatory administrative procedure for granting permis- sion for a good or service to be produced, mar- keted, or used for a stated purpose or under stated conditions. (2) Conformity assessment procedure The term ‘‘conformity assessment proce- dure’’ means any procedure used, directly or indirectly, to determine that a technical regu- lation or standard is fulfilled, including sam- pling, testing, inspection, evaluation, verification, monitoring, auditing, assurance of conformity, accreditation, registration, or approval used for such a purpose, but does not mean an approval procedure. (3) Objective The term ‘‘objective’’ includes— (A) safety, (B) protection of human, animal, or plant life or health, the environment or con- sumers, including matters relating to qual- ity and identifiability of goods or services, and (C) sustainable development, but does not include the protection of domes- tic production. (4) Service The term ‘‘service’’ means a land transpor- tation service or a telecommunications serv- ice. (5) Standard The term ‘‘standard’’ means— (A) characteristics for a good or a service, (B) characteristics, rules, or guidelines for— (i) processes or production methods re- lating to such good, or (ii) operating methods relating to such service, and (C) provisions specifying terminology, symbols, packaging, marking, or labelling for— (i) a good or its related process or pro- duction methods, or (ii) a service or its related operating methods, for common and repeated use, including ex- planatory and other related provisions set out in a document approved by a standardizing body, with which compliance is not manda- tory. (6) Standards-related measure The term ‘‘standards-related measure’’ means a standard, technical regulation, or conformity assessment procedure. (7) Technical regulation The term ‘‘technical regulation’’ means— (A) characteristics or their related proc- esses and production methods for a good, (B) characteristics for a service or its re- lated operating methods, or (C) provisions specifying terminology, symbols, packaging, marking, or labelling for— (i) a good or its related process or pro- duction method, or (ii) a service or its related operating method, set out in a document, including applicable ad- ministrative, explanatory, and other related provisions, with which compliance is manda- tory. (8) Telecommunications service The term ‘‘telecommunications service’’ means a service provided by means of the transmission and reception of signals by any electromagnetic means, but does not mean the cable, broadcast, or other electromagnetic dis- tribution of radio or television programming to the public generally. (Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 473, as added Pub. L. 103–182, title III, § 351(a), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2120.) SUBPART 3—PART DEFINITIONS § 2577. Definitions Notwithstanding section 2571 of this title, for purposes of this part— (1) NAFTA The term ‘‘NAFTA’’ means the North Amer- ican Free Trade Agreement. (2) State The term ‘‘State’’ means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Com- monwealth of Puerto Rico. (Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 481, as added Pub. L. 103–182, title III, § 351(a), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2122.) PART F—INTERNATIONAL STANDARD-SETTING ACTIVITIES § 2578. Notice of United States participation in international standard-setting activities (a) In general The President shall designate an agency to be responsible for informing the public of the sani- tary and phytosanitary standard-setting activi- ties of each international standard-setting orga- nization. (b) Notification Not later than June 1 of each year, the agency designated under subsection (a) with respect to each international standard-setting organiza- tion shall publish notice in the Federal Register of the information specified in subsection (c) with respect to that organization. The notice shall cover the period ending on June 1 of the year in which the notice is published, and begin- ning on the date of the preceding notice under this subsection, except that the first such notice shall cover the 1-year period ending on the date of the notice.