. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/LTU/11 
18 January 2008 
 (08-0250) 
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:   LITHUANIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:    
Ministry of Environment 
A. Jaksto g.4/9 LT-01105 Vilnius 
A. Jaksto g.4/9 
LITHUANIA 
Tel.:  +(370) 5 2663568 
Fax: +(370) 5 2663663 E-mail: i.urnikiene@am.lt 
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:    
EC TBT Enquiry Point: ec-tbt@cec.eu.int 
National TBT Enquiry Point: enquiry@lsd.lt 
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:   Draft technical 
construction regulation STR 1.03.03:2007 Te chnical Approvals.  Preparation and 
Endorsement  (10 pages, in Lithuanian). 
6. Description of content:   This technical construction regulation shall establish the key 
principles of the preparation of technical appr ovals as well as the layout and the procedures 
for endorsement and registration of national technical approvals.  Key definitions are 
revised in consideration of the new editions of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on 
Construction and the Law of the Republic  of Lithuania on Standardisation. G/TBT/N/LTU/11 
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The revision of the technical constructi on regulation STR 1.03.03:2002 “Technical 
Approvals.  Preparation and Endorsement” was done pursuant to the requirements set out in 
legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. 
The draft regulation was prepared in considera tion of the changes of the documents referred 
in Chapter II of the Regulation and pursuant  to the provisions of the Council Directive 
89/106/EEC of 21 December 1988 on the ap proximation of laws, regulations and 
administrative provisions of the Member States relating to construction products 8, 9, 10, 11 
articles, Commission Decision of 17 January 1994 on common procedural rules for 
European technical approval (94/23/EC), Commission Decision of 22 July 1997 on the 
general format of European Technical Appr oval for Construction Products (97/571/EC). 
8. Relevant documents:   Regulation STR 1.01.04:2002 Cons truction products.  Attestion of 
Conformity and "CE" Marking. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }Not specified 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after circulation by WTO Secretariat 
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:  enquiry@lsd.lt