Communication of the EFTA Surveillance Authority concerning the publication in the EEA Section of and the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities of the titles of draft technical regulations notified by the EFTA States parties to the EEA Agreement pursuant to the act referred to in point 1 of section XIX of Annex II to the EEA Agreement laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (Council Directive 83/189/EEC, hereinafter referred to as Directive 83/189/EEC) (94/C 199/07)

Directive 83/189/EEC lays down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations under which each EFTA State party to the EEA Agreement is in particular required to send its draft technical regulations, as defined in the above-mentioned act, on industrial products, agricultural products, foodstuffs, medicinal products and cosmetics to the EFTA Surveillance Authority which transmits them to all the other EFTA States and the EC Commission.

The act referred to in point 6 of section XIX of Annex II to the EEA Agreement concerns the nonrespect of certain provisions of Directive 83/189/EEC, in particular the requirement to communicate national technical regulations falling within the above information procedure at the draft stage.

In order to bring draft national technical regulations to the notice of European industry, the EFTA Surveillance Authority has decided to publish a list of notifications received in the EEA Section of and the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority hereby informs all parties concerned that it will be implementing this decision with effect from 1 August 1994. The list will be published weekly in the EEA Section of and the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities. The information published will comprise the file number (year, number, EFTA State of origin), the project title, and the date on which the three-month standstill period during which the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the EFTA States may make their comments known expires (Article 9 (1) of Directive 83/189/EEC).

The EFTA Surveillance Authority takes the view that publication of such a list will further strengthen the system for preventing the erection of new barriers established by the procedure for the provision of information in Directive 83/189/EEC.

Any individual or economic operator confronted with a national technical regulation in the context of the EEA will be able to make sure that is has been adopted in accordance with the procedures in force or, if this is not the case, to draw the relevant inferences from the act mentioned above in the second paragraph.

Any individual or economic operator interested in a notified draft and wishing to obtain further information may also contact the departments in each EFTA State party to the EEA Agreement responsible for the procedure for the provision of information.

These are as follows:

AUSTRIA

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten

Abteilung 1/5

Stubenring 1

A-1011 Wien

FINLAND

Kauppa-ja teollisuusministeriö

Kauppaosasto

Aleksanterinkatu 10

FIN-00170 Helsinki

ICELAND

Fjármálaráduneytid

Arnarhvoli

IS-150 Reykjavik

NORWAY

Utenriksdepartementet

Box 8114 Dep.

N-0032 Oslo 1

SWEDEN

Kommerskollegium

UB/TBT

Box 1209

S-11182 Stockholm