. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/41
15 May 2002
(02-2697)
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):   Fuels, coal, coke,
sulphide ore, metals, iron, steel, non-iron metals, minerals, basic organic and inorganic
substances, pulp, various protective coatings from molten metals, wastes, atmospheric
pollutants.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Government
Order No. … of  … /2002 Coll., which lays dow n Emission Limits and Other Conditions for
Operation of Other Sources of Air Pollution (62 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   Draft Government Order lays down, according to Article 55
Paragraph 1 of Act No. .../2002 Coll., on Air Protection, to the implementation of Article 4
Paragraph 12, Article 5 Paragraph 12, Article 9 Paragraph 10 and Article 13 Paragraph 8 of
this Act, emission limits, technical conditions of operation, requirements for keeping the
operational sources for other sources of air pollution and the way of their classification into
categories of especially large, large, medium and small sources. Emission limits are laid
down for solid pollutants, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon oxide, volatile organic
substances for various industrial plants in energy, metallurgy and chemical sectors andindustrial operations such as coal dividing and treatment, production of coke, gasification
and liquefaction of coal, production and refining of gases and mineral oils, roasting or
sintering of metal ores including sulphide ore, production of iron and steel, melting of iron
metals, treatment of non-iron metals, surface treatment of metals, processing of minerals
and production of non-metallic mineral products, production of mineral fibre, production ofglass, processing of stone, production of basic inorganic chemical substance (chlorine,
sulphuric acid, nitric acid, sulphur and fertilisers) and organic substances, refining of crude
oil, production of polyvinyl chlorides (PVC), production of rubber, production of cellulose
(pulp), waste management, etc.
This Government Order complies with EC legislation.G/TBT/N/CZE/41
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Environment and human health protection.
8. Relevant documents:   Council Directive 84/360/EEC on the combating of air pollution
from industrial plants, Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution
prevention control.
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