WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.509
11 October 1999
(99-4264)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE NETHERLANDS
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Commodity Board for Soft Drinks and Waters
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different 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 (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Soft drinks and waters
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   First Amendment to
the Deposit Ordinance on Soft Drinks and Waters 1997
6. Description of content:   This amendment aims to extend the deposit obligation from the
soft drinks and mineral water industry to include the Dutch food industry, insofar as thelatter brings bottles and crates subject to the deposit ordinance into circulation within the
Dutch market.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
The present ordinance does not cover all cases in which deposits are charged.  The system
functions only in an environment, which is free of competition, i.e. if all bottles and crates
are subject to deposits.  However, returnable bottles and crates imported directly fromabroad and brought into the Dutch system by the food industry, do – strictly speaking – not
fall within the scope of the ordinance.  The ordinance does only apply to imports made via
the soft drinks industry and the drinks wholesale trade and to soft drinks and watersproduced in the Netherlands in said bottles and crates.  The present amendment aims to
eliminate this flaw in the ordinance.
8. Relevant documents:
- Ordinance establishing the Soft Drinks and Waters Commodity Board;
- Industrial Organisation Act;-Deposit ordinance on soft drinks and waters 1997.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  25 November 1999
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2000          
10. Final date for comments:   20 November 19999
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:           