. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ITA/23 
12 May 2011  
 (11-2434) 
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:  ITALY
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministero dello sviluppo economico 
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  
Department for Enterprise and Internationalization  General Directorate for Market, Competiti on, Consumer, Vigilance and Technical 
Standardization Division XVIII - Technical standardization    
00187 Rome I Via Sallustiana, 53   
Tel.:  +39 06 4705.5430 Fax:  +39 06 48.21.702  E-mail:  tbt.Italia@sviluppoeconomico.gov.it
  
  vincenzo.correggia@sviluppoeconomico.gov.it  
European Commission TBT Enquiry Point:  mailto:ec-tbt@cec.eu.int  
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):  Materials and 
semi-finished metal products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Legislative decree 
integrating and amending the legislative decr ee of 20 February 2009, no. 33, transposing 
Directive 2006/117/Euratom on the supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste 
and spent fuel - radiometric supervision of  materials or semi-finished metal products. 
(21 pages, in Italian).   G/TBT/N/ITA/23 
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  6. Description of content:  The draft decree consists of three Articles and two technical 
Annexes.  
Article 1, which replaces Article 157 of th e current legislative decree concerning the 
"Radiometric supervision of materials and se mi-finished metal produc ts", stipulates the 
obligations and the parties obliged to carry out supervision activiti es on imported metallic 
waste materials or semi-finished metal products.  It refers to a successive decree, which 
stipulates the submission of the notification proc edure at the planning stage, the definition of 
application procedures, the content of radiometric supervision certificates as well as the list of 
semi-finished products subj ect to supervision.  
Article 2 stipulates that, up until the adoption of the decree to which Article 1 refers, 
supervision of semi-finished meta l products shall be carried out on the products indicated in 
Annex I and that second- or third-grade qualified experts, included on th e lists pursuant to the 
current legislation, shall use the form in Annex II.  Article 3 contains an invariance clause concerning the tasks that are the responsibility of public finance.  
The Annexes contain, respectively:  
1. - The list of semi-finished pr oducts which must be supervised;  
2. - The form to be used to issue the certificate of supervision. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature  of urgent problems  where applicable:  It is 
necessary to adopt this meas ure to regulate setting up on national territory a system of 
radiometric supervision extended to include semi-finished metal products, with a view to 
protecting consumer and worker health in orde r to guarantee, through uniform application of 
the notified measures, that  no barriers to industr y and trade are created.  
As the aim of the draft is to protect the environment and health, with particular attention to the 
prevention and protection of the population and of workers against possible accidental 
exposure to ionising radiation, it is clear that radiometric supervision of materials or semi-
finished products is particularly important in or der to detect the presence of anomalous levels 
of radioactivity or of any possible disused sources and the associ ated unpredictability. 
8. Relevant documents:   References to basic texts: Le gislative decree of 17 March 1995, 
no 230, Article 157;   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }May 2011  
10. Final date for comments:  Urgent procedure is required 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
See box 2 Text can be downloaded at:   
http://ec.europa.eu/enter prise/tris/index_it.htm
  
and also at: http://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2011/tbt/ITA/11_1467_00_x.pdf