WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/BOP/N/46/Add.1
11 August 1999
(99-3417)
Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions Original:  English
NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 9 OF THE UNDERSTANDING ON THE
BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROVISIONS OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT
ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994
Communication from the Slovak Republic
Addendum
The following communication, dated 30 July 1999, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the Slovak.
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The Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic
DECREE No. 126/1999 Coll.
10 June 1999
amending Decree of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic
No. 118/199 Coll. on Import Surcharge
The Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republ ic, pursuant to Article 56 of Law No. 42/1980
Coll. on "External Economic Relations" in the wording of Law No. 102/1988 Coll. and LawNo. 113/1990 Coll., has enacted the following:
Article I
Decree of the Ministry of Finance of th e Slovak Republic No. 118/1999 Coll. on Import
Surcharge is amended as follows:
(1) In article (1), paragraph (2a) behind a word "in the Annex" there are being supplemented
words "No. 1".
(2) In article (1), the paragraph (2) is supplemented by letter (e) as follows:
"(e) imported goods released into inward processing for pharmaceutical production listed in
Annex No. 2 to this Decree;  a matter of fa ct, that the goods is determined for inward
processing for pharmaceutical production, is stated in paragraph 31 of the customs
declaration."
(3) Existing Annex is marked as Annex N o. 1 and behind the item "2836 20 00 Disodium
carbonate" are being supplemented items
"2844 40 20 Artificial radioactive isotopes – for sanitary purposes only
2844 40 30 Compounds of artificial radioactive isotopes – for sanitary purposes only
2844 40 80 Other- for sanitary purposes only
30 Pharmaceutical products"
(4) Behind the Annex No. 1 is supplemented the Annex No. 2, being the Annex to this Decree,
Article 2
This Decree enters into the effect since the date of the declaration.
Brigita Schmögnerová
Minister of Finance
of the Slovak RepublicWT/BOP/N/46/Add.1
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ANNEX No. 2 to the Decree No. 118/199 Coll. in reading of the Decree No. 126/199 Coll.
List of Commodities aimed to the inward processing for the pharmaceutical production.
1503 Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil not emulsified or mixed or
otherwise prepared
1520 00 00 Glycerol, crude, glycerol waters and glycerol lyes2501 00 10 Sea water and salt liquors2835 10 00 Phosphinates (hypophosphites) and phosphonates (phosphites)2843 Colloidal precious metals, inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals,
whether or not chemically defined, amalgams of precious metals
2847 Hydrogen peroxide, whether or solidified with urea2906 13 10 Sterols
2934 90 96 Nucleic acids and their salts
2935 00 Sulphonamides2936 Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural
concentrats), derivates thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the
foregoing whether or not in any solvent
2937 Hormones, natural or reproduced by synthesis, derivates thereof, used primarily as
hormones, other steroids used primarily as hormones
2938 Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other
derivates
2939 Vegetable alkaloids, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters
and other derivates
2941 Antibiotics
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