. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ITA/5 
24 August 2004 
 (04-3527) 
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:   Ministry for the Interior 
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 47887805;  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 [   ], 2.10.1 [ X], 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):   Civil use explosives; 
ammunitions; fireworks (only where EC directives and decisions foresee) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:         
- (Ministerial decree 09.19.2002, n. 272; Legislative decree 01.02.1997, n. 7 (EC directive 93/15); EC directive 57/2004 on 04.23.2004; EC decision on 04.15.2004): Applying and ordering circular by the Minister for the interior (9 pages, in Italian) 
 
6. Description of content:   The circular describes the procedures to apply to be allowed to 
manufacture and / or to trade civil use explosives, ammunitions and, only where 
EC directives and EC decisions foresee that, fireworks  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
This circular explains who, what and when  it is necessary to do to perform new common 
rules concerning civil use explosives, amm unitions and, in some occurrences, also 
fireworks. These procedures also allow to “trace” such  products  and so they contribute to 
prevent that such products are used to commit crimes.   
Public safety is the main goal of these rules.   
It urges providing for the highest possible level of control on explosives because of the current unforeseen risk of terrorism.    G/TBT/N/ITA/5 
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8. Relevant documents:   --- 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  27 August 2004 
Proposed date of entry into force:  30 August 2004 
10. Final date for comments:   26 August 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  
 
 