. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/HUN/26 
30 April 2012  
 (12-2264) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  HUNGARY  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Interior - Regulatory Division 
1051 Budapest, József Attila utca 2-4. 
Dr. Gergely Farkas 
Tel.:  999-4335, Fax: 441-1537 Email:  gergely.farkas@bm.gov.hu  
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 :    
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):  Construction products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Amendments to the 
Government Decree No. 253/1997 (XII. 20.) on th e national requirements of town planning 
and building; (23 pages, in Hungarian).     
6. Description of content:  For new buildings, the requirement of disabled access applies only 
to buildings for public use, i.e., in parts of pr imary, secondary and highe r educational, health 
protection, curative, social, cult ural, educational, sports, financial, commercial, insurance, 
service, administration and just ice buildings and structures available for use by anyone 
contrary to the previous requirement, which appl ied to the whole building. In addition to the 
main rules and standards, the planning program me, which significantly increases the freedom 
of the investor and the architect, as well as th e responsibility of not only the investor but also 
the architect, becomes increasingly important. New, complex requirements are specified for the protection of assets and su stainable use of natural res ources, for buildings used for 
accommodation purposes and for light pollution. We have extended the scope of departures 
from certain provisions of OTÉK (Hungarian  abbreviation for National Requirements of 
Town Planning and Building) in order to facilita te better management of  certain technical and 
life situations.  G/TBT/N/HUN/26 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
purpose of the amendment is to make the regulat ion simpler and more lifelike, to eliminate 
any unnecessary cost generating re quirements and to establish a re gulation that complies with 
professional requirements, yet is clear and unders tandable in the application of law in the due 
legal processes in compliance  with security requirements.  
8. Relevant documents:   -   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    After 31 July 2012 
Following its promulgation 
10. Final date for comments:  16 July 2012 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
Hungarian Notification Centre, Ministry for National Economy 
Budapest,  Honvéd u. 13-15. 
H-1880 
Tel.:  (361) 374-2873  Fax:  (361) 473-1622     Email:  notification@nfgm.gov.hu