WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.187
6May1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-1967)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Slovak Office ofStandards, Metrology andTesting (UNMS SR),
Slovak Ministry ofAgriculture
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): Food wheat
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Modification in
Obligatory Status Concerning STN 461100-2 Food Cereals. Food Wheat.
+Amendment 1(5pages, available inSlovak)
6. Description ofcontent: Amendment 1concerning Slovak Standard STN461100-2 Food
Cereals. Food Wheat, wasadopted bytheSlovak Ministry ofAgriculture byJuly1996.
Theoriginal Standard wasthesubject ofnotification TBT/Notif.94.220. Theabove-
mentioned Amendment 1introduces modifications oftheStandard inArticle 2.3and
Chapters 4and5,respectively, dealing with criteria forevaluating food wheat at
delivery, andextending number oftesting methods.
Now, theSlovak Ministry ofAgriculture requires theArticles 2.1,2.2,3.1,4.1,
5andapartofArticle 2.3related tothehumidity indicator andimpurity indicator tobe
obligatory.
Obligatory status ofcertain articles inoriginal Standard (ofJuly1994) was
declared intheDecree No.79/1994 oftheSlovak Office ofStandards, Metrology and
Testing (TBT/Notif.94.135), andlaterrevised intheDecree No.83/1994 oftheSlovak
Office ofStandards, Metrology andTesting. Postulated modification related to
obligatory status ofcertain articles, aswellasalterations intextsofthearticles, requires
amendment ofthetextofabove-mentioned Decree No.83/1994 initsitempresenting
STN461100-2 (Food Cereals. Food Wheat), which isthesubject ofthisnotification.
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7. Objective andrationale: Certain criteria forwheat evaluation given intheoriginal
Standard losttheirjustification. Proposed alterations bothinthetextoftheStandard and
obligatory status aremade inorder tosimplify concluding commercial contracts.
8. Relevant documents:
(a) Decree No.79/1994 oftheSlovak Office ofStandards, Metrology andTesting
Decree No.83/1994 oftheSlovak Office ofStandards, Metrology andTesting;
(b) STN461100-2 Food Cereals. Food Wheat. +Amendment 1;
(c) Announcement oftheSTNobligatory status amendment, asamodification ofthe
Decree No.83/1994 willbepublished inVestník UNMS SR(Official Journal).
9. Proposed dateofadoption:
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:1July1997
10. Final dateforcomments: 22June1997
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: