. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ITA/12 
10 February 2010  
 (10-0741) 
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:  Ministry of the interior  
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, 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 
Email:  tbt.Italia@s viluppoeconomico.gov.it 
 vincenzo.correggia@sviluppoeconomico.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):  Self-defence instruments 
(active principle sprayers not capable of causing injury) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Regulation, pursuant to 
Article 3 (32) of Law No. 94 of 15 July 2009 (Public  Safety Provisions) (3 pages, Italian).     
6. Description of content:  The draft regulation comprises three articles. Article 1 establishes 
the characteristics that products intended for personal defence capable of spraying an irritant 
mixture based on Oleoresin Capsicum must poss ess so as not to constitute weapons pursuant 
to Article 30 of the Public Safety Consolid ation Act. Article 2 identifies the compulsory 
information to be shown on the products in quest ion and the respective packaging with a view 
to importing or bringing them into Italian te rritory. Article 3 specifies that products not 
conforming to the characteristics referred to in Article 1 shall continue to be governed by the 
special weapons regulatio ns and that the provisions of Ar ticles 11 and 12 of Legislative 
Decree No. 206 of 6 Septembe r 2005 shall apply concerning the labelling of the products 
referred to in Article 2, as shall the other pr ovisions of the same legislative decree concerning 
product safety.  G/TBT/N/ITA/12 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adoption of the regulation, pursuant to La w No. 94 of 15 July 2009 on "Public Safety 
Provisions", is designed to remove the products  in question, which are not capable of causing 
injury, from the scope of regulations governing weapons, so that their sale to private 
individuals may be permitted w ithout subjecting them to the restrictions and procedures set 
out in the special weapons regulations.  
8. Relevant documents:   -   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }February 2010   
10. Final date for comments:  2 February 2010 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
Ministry for economic development  
Department for Enterprise and Internationalization  General Directorate  for Market, Competition, Consumer, Vigilance and Technical Standardization Division XVIII - Technica l standardization    
00187 Rome I – Via Sallustiana, 53   
Tel.  +39 06 4705.5430 Fax  +39 06 48.21.702;  Email:  tbt.Italia@sviluppoeconomico.gov.it  vincenzo.correggia@svilup poeconomico.gov.it    
European Commission TBT Enquiry  Point  ec-tbt@cec.eu.int 
Text on line at:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tris/index_it.htm
  
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2010/tbt/ita/10_0494_00_x.pdf