. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/23
19 September 2001
(01-4441)
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):   Equipment for outdoor
use subject to noise limits is listed in Annex 1 and 2:  Various machines and equipment
producing noise emissions such as: builders´ hoists for the transport of goods
(combustion-engine driven), compaction machines (vibrating and non-vibrating rollers,
vibratory plates and vibratory rammers), comp ressors, powered hand-held concrete breakers
and picks, construction winches (combustion-engine driven), dozers, dumpers, hydraulic orrope operated excavators, excavator-loaders, graders, hydraulic power packs, landfill
compactors, with bucket loader-type, lawn mowers, lawn trimmers/lawn edge trimmers,
combustion driven counterbalanced lift trucks, loaders, mobile cranes, motor hoes,
paver-finishers (excluding paver-finishers e quipped with a high-compaction screed), power
generators with installed power less than 400 kW, tower cranes, welding generators, power
generators, aerial access platforms with combustion engine, brush cutters, builders´ hoists
for transport of material (with electric motor), building site band saw machines, building
site circular saw machines, portable chain saws, combined high pressure flushers and
sauction vehicles, compaction machines (explosion rammers only), concrete or mortar
mixers, construction winches (with electric motor), conveying and spraying machines forconcrete and mortar, conveyor belts, cooling equipment on vehicles, drill rigs, equipment
for loading and unloading silos or tanks on trucks, glass recycling containers, grass
trimmers/grass edge trimmers, hedge trimmers, high pressure flushers, high pressure water
jet machines, hydraulic hammers, joint cutters, leaf blowers, leaf collectors, combustion
driven lift trucks with a rated capacity of not more than 10 tonnes, mobile waste containers,paver finishers (equipped with a high compaction screed), piling equipment, pipelayers,
piste caterpillars, power generators ( >=400 kW), power sweepers, refuse collection vehicles,
road milling machines, scarifiers, shredders/chippers, snow-removing machines with
rotating tools, suction vehicles, trenchers, truck mixers and water pump units.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Government
Order No …/2001 Coll., which lays down Technical Requirements for Products With
Respect to Noise Emissions (123 pages, in Czech).G/TBT/N/CZE/23
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6. Description of content:   Above mentioned equipment is subject to noise limits and the
guaranteed sound power shall not exceed the permissible sound power levels indicated in
dB(A)/1 pW in Annex 4. The Draft Government  Order also includes definitions of the
machines and the equipment. The various methods of measurement of airborne noise
emitted by equipment for outdoor use and measuring instruments are described in relation torelevant CSN EN ISO Standards. Operating conditions during tests are specified. Model of
the “CE” marking of conformity and of indica tion of the guaranteed sound power level is in
Annex 11, comply with Annex IV of Directive 2000/14/EC.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
The purpose of Government Order No …/2001 Co ll., is to harmonise Czech legislation with
the EC legislation in the field of noise in context with acceleration of preparation of the
Czech Republic for accession to the European Union.  Transposition of Directive
2000/14/EC, relating to noise emission standards, conformity assessments procedures,
marking, technical documentation and collection of data concerning the noise emission inthe environment of equipment for outdoor use into the Czech law is a contribution to the
protection of human health and environment.  The objective of the Government Order is to
decrease the exposure of the population, especially operating workers, to noise.  The
purpose of the Government Order is also to provide producers with guidelines on maximum
permissible levels of sound power for the above mentioned machines, installations, andequipment and to ensure a high level of human health and environment protection.
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2000/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council; Act No 22/1997 Coll. as amended.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 November 2001
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2002
10. Final date for comments:   31 October 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:
http://www.unmz.cz/ , wto.tbt@unmz.cz