. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/COL/10
3 December 2001
(01-6129)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   COLOMBIA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of the Environment
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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):   Incinerators
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Resolution
Establishing Standards and Maximum Permissible Emission Limits for Solid and Liquid
Multiple-Chamber Incinerator Residue (23 pages in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   Daily mean emission limit values, half-hour mean emission limit
values, emission limit values for heavy metals, emission limit values for dioxins and furans,
measurement of dioxins and furans, monitoring methods, recording and measurement of
incinerator pollutants, frequency of dioxin and furan sampling, maintenance of and defectsin control equipment, operation and maintenance requirements, requirements for multiple-
chamber incinerators, restrictions on hazardous waste, changes in operating conditions,
stack height and diameter, adjustment of stack  height, conformity assessment of operating
conditions, choice of measuring point locations, measuring platform characteristics, points
for the intermittent isokinetic measurement of total suspended particles (tsp), heavy metals,
dioxins and furans, storage equipped with exhaust fans, use of extractor hoods, recording
and measurement (11%), emission limits for thermal plants incinerating solid and liquidwaste in the absence of oxygen (pyrolysis, thermolysis), emission limits for crematorium
furnaces, recording and measurement in crem atorium furnaces, construction materials for
crematorium furnaces, location of incinerators and crematorium furnaces, cases in which the
installation of an incineration plant is prohibited, incinerator and crematorium furnace
installation permit, Annex 1: inorganic substances absorbed in total suspended particles(tsp), Annex 2: Gaseous organic substances and Annex 3: Carcinogens.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Environmental protection
8. Relevant documents:   Law 99 of 1993 and Decree 948 of 1995G/TBT/N/COL/10
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined.
Proposed date of entry into force:  7 June 2002
10. Final date for comments:   28 February 2002
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [     ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of another body:
National enquiry point:  
Ministry of Economic Development
Department of Trade and Promotion of Competition
Carrera 13, No. 28 - 01, Piso 7°Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
E-mail:  normalizacion01@mindesa.gov.co
              Punto de Contacto COLOMBIA@mindesa.gov.co
Tel.:  (571) 350-5500, ext. 1700
Fax:  (571) 350-9564
Ministry of the Environment
Department of Sectoral Environmental Management
Calle 37, No. 8-40, Piso 3
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
E-mail:  svillegas@minambiente.gov.co
Tel.:  (571) 288-6877