. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ALB/23 
20 November 2007 
 (07-5087) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of  Health 
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:    
National Enquiry Point 
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):   The source of ionising 
radiation. 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:   Draft Decision of 
Council of Ministers on approval of the Regula tion “On import and export of the source of 
the ionising radiation in Republic of Albania” (2 pages, available in Albanian). 
6. Description of content:   This Draft Decision of Council of Ministers is based on the  
Article 82, paragraph 3 of Customs Code and Article 3 and 7 of Law No 8025, dated 
09.11.1995 “On protection by the ionizing radia tion”. It abrogates the Decision of Council 
of Ministers No 56 Dated 24.02.2000. It desi gnates that the radiation sources which will 
comply with the import and export procedures ar e those radiation sources defined in the list 
approved by the Commission of Radiation Prot ection. This Draft Decision defines the 
additional documents that exporters and importe rs must submit in the customs point such as:
- license for import and export of the source of ionizing radiations issued by the 
Commission of Radiation Protection;  
- the permission for import and export of the s ource of ionizing radiation of Category 1, 2 
issued by Commission of Radiation Protection;  
- the source of ionizing radiation of Category 3, 4, 5 and generators that  operate with X ray, 
issued by the Office for Radiation Protection; 
- the certificate of quality for generators that operate with x-ray issued within the 2 last 
years from the importing time. G/TBT/N/ALB/23 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The objective is to facilitate the procedures of  import and export of the source of ionizing 
radiation; the procedures of import & export to be under the control from the Commission of Radiation Protection and of the Office of Ra diation Protection starting since the entry in 
the custom points, transport of them into th e territory of Albania until the installation and 
the functioning of them, in order to take the necessary measures in th e case of any risk for 
the human health. 
8. Relevant documents:   Law No 8025, dated 09.11.1995 “On protection by the ionizing 
radiation” 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    15 November 2007  
14 January 2008 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after circulation by WTO Secretariat 
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:   
General Directorate of Standardization 
WTO Enquiry Point - ALBANIA Tel.: (+355) 422 6255 
Fax: (+355) 424 7177 
Email:  info@dps.gov.al 
Website: http://www.dps.gov.al