. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/LVA/1
29 November 2001
(01-6095)
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:   THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Finance
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):   Beer (HS 2203 and
2206)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Rules of the
Cabinet of Ministers "Regulations of Beer Circulation Supervision" (10 pages, available in
Latvian)
6. Description of content:  Draft Rules of the Cabinet of Ministers determine the order of beer
movement and control order of the excised beer, order of the confiscated beer destruction,
terms of certification of beer entrepreneurship registration confirmation, re-registration andcancellation, State control measures to provide this order.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of State economical and social interest.
8. Relevant documents:  Law On Excise Duty on Beer; Customs Law; Foodstuffs Circulation
Supervision Law; Rules of the Cabinet of Ministers No.268 of September 5, 1995 “Rules of
Using and Filling Waybills”; Rules of the Cabinet of Ministers No.106 of March 6, 2001
“Order of Recognition and Registration of Food Production Enterprises”.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  November 2001
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2002
10. Final date for comments: .G/TBT/N/LVA/1
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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:
Ministry of Finance
State Revenue Service4 Smilšu Street
Riga, Latvia, LV-1050
Tel: +371 7 814 559
Fax: +371 7 227 645
E-mail: Anita.Berzina@vid.gov.lv