G/TBT/N/ITA/36  
7 April 2022  
(22-2847) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  ITALY  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry for economic development  
General Directorate for the Market, Competition, Consumer Protection and Technical 
Regulations  
Division VI - Technical regulation - Product safety and compliance  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Ministry for economic development  
General Directorate for the Market, Competition, Consumer Protection and Technical 
Regulations  
Division VI - Technical regulation - Product safety and compliance  
00187 Rome I – Via Sallustiana, 53  
tel. +39 06 4705.5368  
tbt.italia@mise.gov.it  
  
European Commission TBT Enquiry Point: GROW -EU-TBT@ec.europa.eu  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ],3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other  :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Building 
materials  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Regulation on 
the end -of-waste status of inert construction a nd demolition waste and other inert waste 
of mineral origin, pursuant to Article 184b(2) of Legislative Decree No 152 of 3 April 2006; 
(15 page(s), in Italian)  
6. Description of content:  This decree aims to implement the requirements of Article 184b 
of Legislative Decree No 152 of 3 April 2006, which was introduced into Italian law – in 
accordance with Article 6(4) of Directive 2008/98/EC – by Legislative Decree No 205 of 3 
December 2010, with which the aforementioned directive was implemented. In general,  
it is noted that recovered aggregates of various granulometry result from the treatment 
of inert construction and demolition waste and inert waste of mineral origin, with a similar 
performance to those from quarries.  
Please note that in Annex 2 the follow ing condition is set out:  G/TBT/N/ITA/36  
 
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  'For the uses mentioned in point 1(f), the limits set out in entry 47 of Annex XVII to 
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the presence of Cr VI in cement and cement -
containing mixtures shall be respected.'  
7. Objective and r ationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  End of Waste (EoW) is a concrete measure to achieve, as agreed by all EU 
states, a recycling and recovery society, which becomes reality when materials resulting 
from a high quality recycl ing or recovery process can be re -introduced to the market and 
are able to compete with virgin raw materials, allowing a reduction in the consumption of 
natural resources and raw materials.; Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:   
- Part Four of Legislative Decree 152/2006 (Environmental Code);  
- Explanatory report;  
- Technical & regulatory analysis;  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  15 June 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  15 June 2022  
10. Final date for comments:  15 June 2022  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Text on line at: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tris/en/search/  
(Notification number: 2022/149/I) and/or at: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -
databases/tbt/en/search