WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/FIN/4
15 May 2002
(02-2686)
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:   FINLAND
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   EC WTO-TBT Enquiry Point
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:   Ministry of the
Environment, Ms. Pirkko Kivelä, P.O. Box 35, 00023, Government, Finland, p. +358-9-
1603 9733, f.  +358-9-1603 9716, email: pirkko.kivela@ymparisto.fi
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):   Persistent organic
pollutants
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Decree of the State on
Persistent Organic Pollutants (available in Finnish, 2 pages)
6. Description of content:   Prohibition of production, use, import and export of certain
persistent organic pollutants and articles containing or treated with them.  Provisions onenvironmental sound waste management of POPs waste.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the
Protocol of Persistent Organic Pollutants  (POPs) under the UN ECE Convention on Long
Range Transboundary Air Pollution
8. Relevant documents:   This regulation is to be included in the Statutes of Finland.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }To be determined
10. Final date for comments:   31 July 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:           