WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/HUN/16
7 August 2003
(03-4142)
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:   REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Environment Protection and Water Management –
Department for International Law and Legal Harmonisation, Budapest, F ő út 44-50, H-1011
Tel.:  (361) 457-3300  Fax:  (361) 201-3361  e-mail address:  bagi@mail.ktm.hu
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 [ X ], 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):   Combustion plants
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Decree 10/2003.
(V11.11) KVM on the conditions of operation and emission limit values of air pollutants
from combustion plants, the rated thermal input of which is equal to or greater than 50 MW
(16 pages, in Hungarian)
6. Description of content:   The decree lays down emission limits and their respective
supervision requirements and contains rules regarding the condition of operation of large
combustion plants.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Legal harmonisation in connection with the accession of Hungary to the European Union of
Directive 2001/80/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the limitation ofemissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants;  reduction of air
pollution to abate acidification, eutrophication and ground-level ozone.
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2001/80/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large
combustion plants.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  11 July 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  21 July 2003
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:
Hungarian Notification Centre, Ministry of Economy and Transport
Budapest, Honvéd u. 13-15, H-1880
Tel.:  (361) 374-2867  Fax:  (361) 312-4664  e-mail:  notification@gkm.hu