WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/46
24 May 2002
(02-2884)
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):   Solid or liquid waste,
municipal waste
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Government
Order, which lays down Emission Limits and Other Conditions on Incineration of Waste
(32 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   Draft Government Order lays down, according to Paragraph 1 of
Article 55 of Act No .../2002 Coll., on Air Protection to the implementation of Paragraph 12
of Article 4 and Paragraph 12 of Article 5 of this Act, emission limits, operationalconditions and technical requirements for waste incineration plants, and the method of their
classification into categories: especially large and large sources of pollution.
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.
8. Relevant documents:   Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council
1989/369/EEC, 1994/67/EEC, and 200 0/76/EC, Decree of the Ministry of Environment
No 381/2001 Coll.
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