. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/POL/1
13 August 2001
(01-3988)
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:   POLAND
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of the 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 [     ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicab le, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   This Regulation
introduces Polish Standards (PN) for obligatory use. ICS numbers of the Polish Standards:
13.040.40; 27.060.30; 65.020.20.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Regulation of  the
Minister of the Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry on the
introduction into mandatory use some Polish Standards concerning environmentalprotection and forestry of Sept. 1999 (1 page, in  Polish).
6. Description of content:   The obligatory standards are: PN-87/M-34129 Dust extraction
plants for steam boilers.  Requirement, assembly and acceptance tests, (15 pages, in Polish);
PN-R-65700:1998 Planting seeds.  Seeds of forest trees, shrubs and bushes, (33 pages in
Polish);  PN-R-67025:1999 Planting material.  Tree and shrub seedlings for forest cultures
and plantations, (30 pages in Polish).
(i) Polish  Standard:  PN-87/M-34129 prescribes performance  requirements for dust
extraction plants for coal burned boilers, and it also describes procedures for
assembly and acceptance tests;  obligatory are the following points:  2.2.1; 2.2.2;3.1.2.9;  3.1.2.10; 3.2.1.11;  3.2.1.13;  3.2.1.14;  3.2.1.17;  3.2.1.18; 3.2.1.19 and
Chapter 6, concerning the test method for performance evaluation of dust extraction
plants, prescribed in order to control dust emission from coal burning installations.
(ii) Polish Standard:  PN-R-65700:1998 presents terms and their definitions.  This also
presents of planting seeds adjusted to international requirements and it also givesquality classification;
(iii) Polish Standard: PN-R-67025:1999 presents terms and their definitions of planting
material generated in forest cultures, foil tunnels, greenhouses and hotbeds.  It also
gives classification and designation of seedlings, requirements, made of labelling,storage, packing and shipment.G/TBT/N/POL/1
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
All the requirements aim to protect environment and forestry. The notification was prepared
in the framework of an overall process of withdrawing from the system of mandatory
standards towards voluntary standards.
8. Relevant documents:           
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  Planned date of withdrawing 31 December 2002
10. Final date for comments:
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:           