./.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/BEL/9
3 April 2001
(01-1653)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: French
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   BELGIUM
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  Belgium
2. Agency responsible:
Ministry of Social Affairs, Public Health and the Environment
Services fédéraux pour l'environnement
Service Prévention des risques
Centre Administratif de l'Etat – Bâtiment Vésale
Boulevard Pachéco 19/5
B – 1010 BruxellesTel: +32 2 210 49 13
Fax: +32 2 210 48 84
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):   Biocidal products and
entitlement to sell or use certain biocidal products
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Royal Decree on the
Placing on the Market and Use of Biocidal Products
6. Description of content:   The proposed Royal Decree on the Placing on the Market and the
Use of Biocidal Products is an adaptation of Belgian regulations on pesticides, as laid down
by the Royal Decree of 5 June 1975 on the keeping, sale and use of pesticides for non-
agricultural purposes, with a view to the tran sposition of European Parliament and Council
Directive 98/8/CE of 16 February 1998 regarding the placing on the market of biocidal
products.
The proposal also contains an adaptation of the regulation applicable in Belgium, in
particular with respect to the sale, delivery and use of biocidal products, which should belimited to use by professionals due to their toxicity and the danger that they may pose to
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Transposition of the directive on biocidal products and adaptation to the principles
of this directive of existing regulations on the sale and use of biocidal products that posedangers to health.
8. Relevant documents:
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: } 60 days
10. Final date for comments:
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:  CIBELNOR