. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/SVK/5
22 May 2003
(03-2751)
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:   Slovak Republic
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Slovak Office of  Standards, Metrology and Testing
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:
Assorted products:  petroleum products (petrol, fuel oils, lubricating oils, kerosene, etc.);
antiknock substances, fuels and lubricants additives, etc.;  hydraulic brakes fluids, antifreeze
substances;  plastic products (e.g. man-made casings, boards, foils, packaging, kitchenware,
tanks and containers, office and educational requisites, ornamental articles, ladders);  rubber
and gum products (pipes, hoses, conveyers, transmission belts, inner tubes);  leather
products (briefcases, gloves); wood and products made of wood (mine supporting
constructions, scaffold timberworks, wood-fibre and plywood boards, pallets, woodenladders and stairs);  wool and cotton yarn, sewi ng threads, synthetic textile floorings;  fire
hoses;  baby garments, clothing and underwear, sports garments, textile accessories for
children, blankets for children, bed clothes and linen, porcelain and glass ware destined for
contact with foods and mouth, iron and steel products (sheets and pipes for industrial use,
pipes for heating, welded steel piping, scaffolding, tanks and similar containers, steel wireropes, pressure cylinders, chains, etc.);  aluminium tanks and similar containers, petrol
lamps, cutlery and similar products destined for contact with food, locks and locking
devices, crown caps for bottles, central heating boilers, specific parts and components of
hydraulic and pneumatic drives and motors, heat exchangers with engine-pump sets, pumps,
compressors, fans, burners;  non-electric ovens for bakeries, drying machinery foragricultural use, catering equipment, machines for filtration and purification of liquids, fire
extinguishers, conveyers, ploughs, disc harrows, scarifiers, cultivators and weeders,
calculators, accountancy and similar equipment, galvanic cells, batteries and accumulators;
electric devices for signalling and safety purposes or for traffic regulation, plugs, sockets
and accessories for on/off switching of electric circuits; components and parts of railwaycarriages, tractors, bicycles, carts, perambulators and their parts, agricultural trailers and
semi/trailers, certain military weapons, ammunition and rockets, furniture for offices and
households (made of wood and other materials), fire-resistant cabinets, furniture
components, mattresses;  educational supplies and stationery; products and materials
related to protection against static electricity effect;  light metal cans (except aluminium);metal shelves for stores and shops; metal boxes; movable and sliding mechanisms for
furniture;  product destined for children up to three years of age, manufactured of softened
PVC with maximum content 0.1 weight per cent age DINP, DEHP, DNOP, DIDP, BBP, or
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Detailed list of covered products is contained in the Annex to the regulation.
ICS numbers may  be provided in addition where applicable):  Ex 2710, 2925, 2926,
3403, 3405, 3810, 3811, 3819, 3820, 3916, 3917, 3920, 3921, 3923-3926, 4005, 4008–
4013, 4016, 4202, 4203, 4403, 4407, 4408, 4410, 4412, 4415, 4418, 4806, 5106-5108,
5110, 5204-5206, 5401, 5402, 5403, 5502-5504, 5507-5510, 5701-5705, 5909, 6101-6104,6107-6116, 6201-6209, 211-6214, 6216, 6217, 6301, 6302, 6307, 6503-6506, 6911, 7010,
7012, 7013, 7106, 7205, 7210, 7212, 7217, 7223, 7304-7306, 7308, 7309, 7311, 7312,
7315, 7318, 7321, 7323, 7326, 7407, 7408, 7417, 7418, 7504, 7604, 7605, 7610-7613,
7615-7619, 7803, 8003, 8110, 8201, 8205, 8211-8215, 8301-8303, 8307, 8309, 8311, 8403,
8405, 8412-8414, 8416-8417, 8419, 8421, 8424, 8428, 8432, 8434-8436, 8438, 8468, 8470,
8479, 8481, 8506-8507, 8530–8531, 8536, 8607-8609, 8701, 8712, 8715-8716, 9026, 9301,
9306, 9401, 9403-9504, 9506, 9608-9610
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Measure of the
Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and Te sting concerning inclusion of the products
among determined products.  (1 page + 12 pages;  text + Annex in Slovak language)
6. Description of content:   The measure includes certain products into the list of determined
products for limited period of time to 31 December 2003.  The measure states also
minimum procedure for conformity assessment.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Creating legal status providing consumer protection via the conformity assessment
procedure and corresponding to process of accession of the Slovak Republic to theEuropean Union.
8. Relevant documents:   Act No.264 of 7 September 1999 on technical requirements for
products and on conformity assessment, and on change and amendment of some Acts in
wording of the Act 436/2001/Coll.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 June 2003
10. Final date for comments:   The measure is temporary;  comments are welcome.
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:           