. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/SVK/1
22 January 2001
(01-0312)
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:   SLOVAK REPUBLIC
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic
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):   Fire doors, fire windows,
fire lids, fire dampers, fire closures of conveyor system openings
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   D e c r e e  o f  t h e
Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic No …/2000, Coll. Establishing Specifications
laid on Fire Closures, Conditions for their Use, and Regular Checking
6. Description of content:   Proposed Decree belongs to the set of commonly binding legal
acts with technical content.  Specifications related to the fire closures from the point of view
of the fire safety, conditions for their intended use, and providing regular checking of fireclosures are determined to this Decree.
Issues related to characteristics and classification of fire closures, fire resistance, automatic
closing equipment, safety mechanisms, panic exist closures, emergency exit closures, seals,
operation conditions, marking, documentations files, maintenance, repairs, and inspection
are also dealt with.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
The issue of fire closures had not been comp letely solved in any legal rules up to date.
Nowadays, this topic is partially dealt with in Slovak standards (STNs), relevant parts of
which are transposed into this Decree.
In regard to creating a single market, removing technical barriers to trade, and
harmonization of the legal rules of the Slovak Republic with the European Union law
system, progressive transformation of the t echnical standard provisions into commonly
binding legal acts takes place in the field of fire protection, too.
For this reason the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic has elaborated the Decree
establishing specifications laid on fire closures, conditions for their use, and regular
checking thereof.G/TBT/N/SVK/1
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8. Relevant documents:
- STN 73 0802 Fire protection of buildings.  Common regulations;
- STN 73 0804 Fire protection of buildings.  Industrial buildings;
- STN 73 0872 Fire protection of building.  Protection of buildings against fire  
propagation through air-distributing equipment;
- STN 73 0852 Fire protection of buildings.  Determination of fire resistance of fire 
closures.;
- STN EN 179 (16 6020) Building Hardware.  Emergency exit devices operated by a 
lever handle or push pad.  Requirements and test methods;
- STN EN 1125 (16 6021) Building Hardware.  Panic exit devices operated by a 
horizontal bar.  Requirements and test methods;
- Decree of the Ministry of Interior of  the Slovak Republic No. 288/2000 Coll.,
establishing technical requirements on fire safety during erection and utilization of
construction works (G/TBT/Notif.00/495).
- The Decree will be published in the Collection of Acts of the Slovak Republic.
Proposed date of adoption:  The
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 May 2001
10. Final date for comments:   1 April 2001
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: