WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.98.35
19January 1998
ORGANIZATION
(98-0181)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: NETHERLANDS
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Ministry ofHousing, Spatial Planning andtheEnvironment
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above: National enquiry point
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers may beprovided inaddition, where applicable): TheImplementing
Regulation relates togranular (both primary andsecondary) building materials.
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Implementing
Regulation -Building Materials Decree (hereinafter referred toas: Implementing
Regulation) (English)
6. Description ofcontent: Thedetails oftheImplementing Regulation, thenotification of
which wascompleted in1996 under number 94/0389/NL, arenowbeing adapted. The
amendments andadditions totheImplementing Regulation areconcerned with:
- Anumber ofobvious lay-out errors;
- asimplification ofanumber oftesting obligations which areimposed onthe
consumer ofstony building materials;
- thedetailing ofthepossibility, laidoutintheBuilding Materials Decree, of
temporarily designating anumber ofparticular categories ofbuilding materials
(seeArticles 12.3.1 and12.3.2).
Itisnoted herethattheprecise duration ofthistemporary arrangement
cannotyetbeindicated;
- thereplacement ofAnnex F(theinterim protocol forclean soil)withanew
Annex Fcontaining anumber ofprotocols intended forsoilandother building
materials.
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7. Objective andrationale including thenature ofurgent problems where applicable: The
implementing Regulation isatechnical addition totheBuilding Materials Decree, which,
forthepurposes ofimplementing theNational Environmental Policy Plan (action
point 68a), laysdown thepreconditions relating toenvironmental health fortheuseof
residues andwaste material asbuilding materials. Thisisontheother hand toprevent
further cases of(water) soilpollution arising.
8. Relevant documents: TheImplementing Regulation isbased ontheBuilding Materials
Decree -SoilandSurface Water Protection (Bulletin ofActsandDecrees 1995, 567).
9. Proposed dateofadoption: 26January 1998
Proposed dateofentry intoforce: 2February 1998
10. Final dateforcomments: 23January 1998
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress, e-mail andtelefax number
ofother body: