. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ITA/6 
28 September 2004 
 (04-4082) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English 
   
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   ITALY
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   The Italian Parliament - Roma 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:         
Ministry of productive activities 
Department of Enterprise – Productive development directorate general  
Office F1-Technical inspectorate of indust ry – 00187 Rome I – Via Molise, 2  
 Tel.: ++39 06 47052205  Fax: ++39 06 47887748;  
tbt.Italia@attivitaproduttive.gov.it
  
vincenzo.correggia@minindustria.it     
 European Commission TBT Enquiry Point  ec-tbt@cec.eu.int
 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:         
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Precious stones 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:    
- Project of law dealing with: “Orders to protect customers in the field of  technical 
regulations concerned with trade of prec ious stones”(10 pages, in Italian)   
6. Description of content:   The project of law deals with:  
- definitions about precious stones; 
- general orders concerning precious stones trading; 
- traders’ responsibilities;  certifying systems; analysis laboratories;  
- Trade chambers’ watching mission. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The purpose of this project of law is to prot ect customers when they buy precious stones or 
jewels made with precious stones. The law impos es to let the customer know some technical  
requirements of the precious stones they are goi ng to buy and to certify precious materials 
in order to trace their origin.   G/TBT/N/ITA/6 
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8. Relevant documents:   - 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }      
10. Final date for comments:   30 November 2004 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:        
[X] - see box 2 
Text on line at http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/tris/index_it.htm  
 