. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/SVN/44 
28 February 2006 
 (06-0858) 
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:   SLOVENIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:         
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:    
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia - National Chemicals Bureau 
Mali trg 6 SI-1000 Ljubljana Tel:  (+478) 6039 Fax:  (+478) 6266 
E-mail:  alojz.grabner@gov.si 
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):  Chemicals, Biologic 
materials, Equipment and technology (ICS:  71.060, 07.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Act on contr ol of 
strategic goods of particular importance for hea lth and safety, (29 pages, in Slovenian and, 
English) 
6. Description of content:   The Act introduces conditions and limitations for any activity that 
includes strategic goods of particular security  importance, thus preventing its possible 
misuse.  It establishes a controlled envir onment within which onl y legal and allowed  
activities are conducted, which are in compliance wi th the act and international legislation.  
 The Act uses a comprehensive approach, as it provides for contr ol of all phases of a life-
cycle of strategic goods and all activ ities related to it.  It is of a preventive nature in its basic 
intention.  Instead of regulating (one) stra tegic activity (export) alone, it focuses on the 
subjects performing strategic activities.  The cont rol of strategic goods is thus shifted to its 
origin which is easier to control than the activity itself.   
The Act provides for several mechanisms, which can be a pplied as modules dependent on 
the importance of a certain type or group of strategic goods.  The act employs two types of 
control mechanisms.  Preliminary (or preventive) mechanisms enable preliminary 
evaluation of circu mstances and are  implemented as a licence for conducting a strategic activity (either f or a liable person or an activity  itself).  In practice these G/TBT/N/SVN/44 
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  mechanism is only applied to strategic goods or activities, for which the strictest control is  
requested by international control regimes, or  justified by the intents and purposes of this  
act.  For all other events the Act provides for softer approach and transfers th e power of 
applying these soft measures to the Governme nt.  It may , in its regulations, define 
exceptions for which softer general con trol m echanisms apply and for which they  may be 
omitted entirely.  These soft mechanisms account  for the second type of control mechanism, 
the so called "later" mechanisms.  These do not impose any limitations to the liable persons in advance;  instead their fulfilment is assumed "in a good faith" and is checked during 
regular enforcement activities.  The Act tak es use of EU Regulation 13 34/2000/EC for the 
export control of strategic goods, extending its ex port control provisions to the goods that is 
not covered by the Regulation itself. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Safety and health 
8. Relevant documents:   Chemical Weapons Act, OJRS, no. 36/99 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }24 April 2006 
9 May 2006 
10. Final date for comments:   24 April 2006 
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:        
Slovenian Institute for Standardization - SIST 
WTO-TBT Enquiry Point Šmartinska 140 SI-1000 Ljubljana - Slovenia 
E-mail: contact@sist.si