. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ITA/21 
15 November 2010  
 (10-6095) 
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 della salute  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail 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, Compe tition, 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:  mailto:tbt.Italia@sviluppoeconomico.gov.it
 
 mailto: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):  Textile products, leather 
goods, footwear, seats. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft interministerial 
decree pursuant to article 2.1 of Law 55 of 8 Ap ril 2010 – "Provisions for the sale of textile 
products, leather goods and footwe ar" (3 pages, in Italian). 
6. Description of content:  The notified decree comprises 4 Ar ticles.  Article 1 details the 
information that must be contained in the spec ifications document supplied with finished and 
semi-finished products intended  for sale (giving indicatio ns regarding each stage of 
manufacturing and compliance with the appli cable national and international standards). 
Article 2 lays down the requirements to be sati sfied by finished produc ts in the industries 
within the scope of application of the law in order to use the "Made in Italy" indication; the same article stipulates that in order to use the "Made in Italy" indication, the final substantial transformation of such products  must take place in Italy.  
Article 3 states that manufactur ing phase tracking is considered  verifiable if the manufacturer 
has documentation giving unequivocal proof of the location in which each stage is carried out 
and that, where there is insufficient evidence to verify a given phase, said phase shall be presumed carried out outside the country. G/TBT/N/ITA/21 
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  Article 4 assigns to the Chamber of Commerce,  Industry, Artisan Crafts and Agriculture 
(CCIAA) the task of pe rforming checks on the correct labe lling of products allowed onto the 
market and on the use of the "Made in Italy"  indication; it appoints the CCIAA as the 
authority responsible for issui ng the administrative fines pursu ant to Law 55 of 2010 and for 
suspending the activities of manufacturing compan ies in the event of repeated violation; it 
clarifies that the checks provided for do not exclude all monitoring and control ordinarily 
carried out by the administrative police or cust oms checks, without any prejudice whatsoever 
thereto. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
adoption of the interministerial  decree is provided for by La w 55 of 8 April 2010 and is 
necessary for the application of the provisi ons outlined in the general terms therein.  
8. Relevant documents:   The basic texts have also been referred to in the context of a previous 
notification:  2010/0286/I   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }January 2011 
10. Final date for comments:  17 January 2011 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and website addresses, if available of the other body:   – see box 2 
Text on line at:  http://www.ec.europa.eu/ente rprise/tris/index_it.htm  
And can be downloaded at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/ITA/10_4226_00_x.pdf