. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ITA/8 
7 December 2006 
 (06-5860) 
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 government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Health - Roma 
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 Economic Development  
Department of Enterprise – Productive development directorate general  Office F1-Technical inspectorate of indust ry – 00187 Rome I – Via Molise, 2  
Tel:. (+39) 06 47052205  
Fax: (+39) 06 47887748 Email: tbt.Italia@attivitaproduttive.gov.it   vincenzo.correggia@attivitaproduttive.gov.it    
European Commission TBT Enquiry Point  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):   Electrical or physical 
devices for the preparation of water intended for human consumption. 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:    
Project of: "Technical rules concerning electrical or physical devices for the preparation – at home or in public rooms - of water intended fo r human consumption" (10 pages, in Italian). 
6. Description of content:   This project of decree is going to discipline both admission in the 
Italian market and use – at home or in public rooms – of electrical or physical devices for 
the preparation of water intended for human consumption.  Some of such devices are 
subject to a technical approval other ones are only subject to a notification.  
Five items are issued:  
- General conditions;  
- Hygienic sanitary rules;  
- Technical documents concerning the speci al devices described under item 7, 8 and 
9 of the Second Attachment, which should be prepared for the approval of the device by the Italian Ministry of Health;  
- Experimental protocol for the evaluation of effectualness and hygienic sanitary 
safety of electrical or physical devices for the preparation of water intended for 
human consumption (devices described under item 3, 7, 8 and 9 of the Second Attachment);  
- Technical inspections to verify th e maintenance of approved conditions. G/TBT/N/ITA/8 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The purpose of this project of decree is to issue the hygienic sanitary principles to be 
respected by the devices for the preparation of water intended for human consumption. 
8. Relevant documents:   - 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }End of February 2007 
10. Final date for comments:   19 February 2007 
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:   
See box 2 
 Text online at:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tris/index_it.htm