SLOVAK REPUBLIC: TESTING REGULATIONS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 95.96. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: SLOVAK REPUBLIC. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and Testing (UNMS SR). 3. Notified under Article 5.6.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Underground mines equipment and devices (8412; 8428; 8429), tested chains (7315), housing proposal and special lighting fittings (9405), number and movement measuring instruments (9026; 9029), medical instruments and hospitals equipment (9018; 9402), mechanical and electromechanical typewriters (8469), blacksmith's, tinsmith's and locksmith's tools (8205), pneumatic tools (8467), electric mining drilling machines and hammers (8508), grinding, cutting, and feeding discs (6804), devices for raising motor vehicles (8425), internal combustion engines checking equipment (9031), tyres mounting and dismantling devices (8479), rail vehicles heating sets (8607), locomotives and their parts (8601; 8602; 8607), cranes (8426), pulleys blocks, drills, winches (8425), accessories for passenger ropeways and for working in heights and over free depth (5609; 7616), mechanical shovels (8429), transport trucks (8427; 8428; 8431; 8709), pendant conveyers (8428), metal and mixed material containers (8609), tunnelling machines (8430), mine machines and equipment (8430; 8479), metal mould casting machines (8454), devices for surface works (8463; 8456; 8424), roller cards, spinning machines and looms (8445), uptwisters, automatic looms (8446), building machines for surface, foundations works, compacting devices (8429), roads and airport surfaces machines (8429; 8430; 8479; 8705), shovel excavators (8429), wheelchairs (8713), small metal goods (7326; 7616), construction locks, furniture locks, locks inserts (8301), textile straps and belts, climbing equipment (5609). 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Decree UNMS SR 94/1995 of 2 January Via Which the Products for Obligatory Certification at the Testing Institute of Transport and Building Techniques in Zilina are Specified. 6. Description of content: The proposed technical regulations state the examining of mechanical, fire and electrical safety, hygienic irreproachability, health and environmental protection, safety at work and energy saving and subsequent certification or conformity of these products to the specified technical standards and legislative regulations. 7. Objective and rationale: The reason for introducing the obligatory testing instead of current obligatory products type approval is to harmonize the conformity certification system valid in the countries of EU and EFTA (according to so-called ``Global Approach to Certification and Testing'' of 13 June 1989). The aim of introducing these regulations is to reach full compatability of the procedure for the conformity certification of products in accordance with the EU directives, which subsequently will ensure the mutual recognition of certificates. 8. Relevant documents: (a) Previous documents: - Act No. 30/1968 Zb. on state testing in tenor to subsequent regulations. - FUNM Decree No. 101/1988 on products certification. (B) International documents: - European Commission's document No. 89/C267/03 of 15 June 1989 ``Global Approach to Certification and Testing. Qualitative Measures for Industrial Products''. EU Council Decision of 13 December 1990 concerning the modules for various phases of the conformity assessment procedures which are intended to be used in the technical harmonization directives. - EU Council Directive No. 89/392/EEC in wording of changes of 91/168 EEC, 93/44/EEC on unifying the legal regulations concerning machines. (c) Publication in which there is a reference: UNMS Bulletin No. 1-2/1995 (Vestnik UNMS SR No. 1-2/1995). (d) Publication in which the proposal will be published after the approval: Official Gazette of the Slovak Republic. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 1 June 1995. 10. Final date for comments: 30 May 1995. (115)

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