WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/42
15 May 2002
(02-2695)
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:   CZECH REPUBLIC
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Environment
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):   Biomass (products
consisting of any whole or part of a vegetable material originating from agriculture or
forestry, fibrous vegetable waste from the pulp production, paper production, and
processing of wood, which can be used as fuel for the purpose of recovering its energy
content).
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Government
Order, which lays down Emission Limits and Other Conditions for the Operation of
Combustion Plants Polluting Air (39 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   Draft Government Order lays down, according to Article 55
Paragraph 3 of Act No …/2002 Coll., on Air Protection to the implementation of Article 4
Paragraph 12, Article 5 Paragraph 12, Article 6 Paragraph 9, Article 9 Paragraph 10 and
Article 13 Paragraph 8 of this Act, the emission limits of pollutants, permissible darkness of
smoke, emission limits of odour substances and other conditions for the operation of
stationary combustion plants polluting air.
This Government Order complies with EC legislation.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Environmental protection.
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 80/2001/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large
combustion plants.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  15 June 2002
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 July 2002
10. Final date for comments:   12 June 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:
http://www.unmz.cz/ , wto.tbt@unmz.cz