RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/TBT/2/Add.4
26March 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-1079)
Original: English Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OFTHE AGREEMENT
ONTECHNICAL BARRIERS TOTRADE
Thefollowing Statement under Article 15.2oftheAgreement hasbeenreceived from the
delegation oftheSlovak Republic.
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1. Pursuant toArticle 15.2oftheAgreement onTechnical Barriers totrade, theSlovak
Republic wishes hereby toinform about theimplementation oftheabove mentioned Agreement.
2. TheAgreement Establishing theWTO anditsintegral part,theAgreement onTechnical
Barriers toTrade, afterhaving beenagreed bytheNational Council andratified bythePresident,
came intoforce on1January 1995.
3. IntheDecision oftheGovernment No.1161 from 24November 1994, onresults of
Ministerial Conference ofTrade Negotiations Committee ofUruguay Round andconcerning the
implementation bytheslovak Republic ofUruguay Round ofMultilateral Negotiations, the
Government hasauthorized theMinistry ofEconomy asfullyresponsible forimplementing and
administration ofallWTO Agreements andfortheTBTAgreement withitsexecution bythe
Slovak Office ofStandards, Metrology andTesting oftheSlovak Republic andbyrelevant
ministries.
4. Toensure thattheprovisions oftheTBTAgreement areapplied byallrelevant ministries
andinstitutes responsible fortheoperation ofthetechnical regulation, standards andconformity
assessment procedures, theMinistry ofEconomy circulated copies oftheTBTAgreement andan
official letter dated 23February 1995 requesting them tofulfil permanently allobligations,
principles andprocedures under theTBTAgreement.
5. Awritten notification hasbeensenttotheWTO Secretariat announcing theaddress ofthe
existing WTO Enquiry Point oftheSlovak Republic under Articles 10.1and10.3oftheTBT
Agreement. Thefollowing address hasbeennotified:
Slovak Office ofStandards
Metrology andTesting
WTO Enquiry Point
Štefanovic ova3
81439Bratislava
Tel: +427493521
Fax: +427491050
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6. Theabove mentioned WTO Enquiry Point hasbeenauthorized toexecute allrespective
notifications andother obligations under theTBTAgreement. Notifications received from other
WTO Members bytheEnquiry Point aredistributed totherelevant authorities forcomments.
7. Theexpected length oftimeforsubmitting comments inwriting ondrafttechnical
regulations, standards orconformity assessment procedures byother Members oftheWTO is
60days. Theperiod starts ontheassumed arrival dayofthenotification attheWTO Secretariat
while respecting other Member 'srequest fortimeextension.