. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/47
24 May 2002
(02-2896)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   CZECH REPUBLIC
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Environment
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:           
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):
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Government
Order, which lays down Emission Limits, Cond itions and Requirements for Ambient Air
Quality Assessment and Management and Im plementation of Particular Ambient Air
Protection, Permissible Degree of Odour Nuisance and Method for its Determination,
Extent of Information on State of Air and Way of their Information Accessible to the Public(55 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   Draft Government Order lays down, according to Paragraph 3 of
Article 55 of Act No .../2002 Coll., on Air Pr otection, to the implementation of Paragraph 9
of Article 6, Paragraph 11 of Article 7, Paragr aph 12 of Article 8, Paragraph 10 of Article 9,
Paragraph 2 of Article 10 and Paragraph 5 of Article 36 of this Act, emission limits,
tolerance limits, target imission limits, and long term emission limits.  Further it lays down
a method of air pollution level assessment, the method of ensuring up-to-date information
on air pollution and its accessibility to the population and securing of reciprocal exchange
data and information, the principles of operation of smog alert and regulation system, theprinciples of measurements of air pollution level, provision of meteorological data.
Imission limits and tolerance limits are laid down for suspended particles, fine particles,
sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, benzene, carbon monoxide, poly-aromatic
hydrocarbons, lead, cadmium, arsenic, nickel, mercury.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To comply the Czech legal system with EC legislation in the field of environmental
protection and protection of human health.
8. Relevant documents:   Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council
1996/62/EC, 1999/30/EC, 1992/72 /EC, 2000/69/EC, COM 16/2001.G/TBT/N/CZE/47
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  15 June 2002
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 July 2002
10. Final date for comments:   12 June 2002
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:
http://www.unmz.cz/ , wto.tbt@unmz.cz