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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF APRIL 15,1996 PSA#1573

NETHERLANDS: WOOD-BURNING STOVES The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 96.68. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: Netherlands. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above: 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Wood-burning stoves. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Type Approval Regulation on Wood-Burning Stoves Causing Air Pollution in the Form of Carbon Monoxide. 6. Description of content: In view of the emission of polycyclical aromatic hydrocarbons (PAC), the Order on type approval of wood-burning stoves causing air pollution in the form of carbon monoxide stipulates that, following the entry into force of the Order, wood-burning stoves shall no longer be manufactured or imported in the Netherlands if these are not of an approved type. During the approval procedure, it will be assessed whether a wood-burning stove meets the limit values in terms of carbon monoxide emission. The relevant standards have been included in the Order; these are based on DIN Standards 18891 and 18895. With regard to measuring procedures, this Regulation makes reference to the said DIN Standards. 7. Objective and rationale: It has proved necessary from an environmental health point of view to subject the emission of carbon monoxide (CO) from wood-burning stoves to requirements, since high emission levels of CO are accompanied by the emission of considerable amounts of PAC. The emission of PAC by households is to be halved, also within the framework of OsPar. Wood-burning stoves are the main source within households. 8. Relevant documents: (a) Order on the type approval of wood-burning stoves causing air pollution in the form of carbon monoxide. Note: The explanatory note to the notified version of this Order specifies DIN Standard 18890 instead of DIN Standard 18895. This mistake has since been corrected. (b) Air Pollution Act. (c) DIN Standards 18891 and 18895. 9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 September 1996. Proposed date of entry into force: n/a. 10. Final date for comments: 29 May 1996. (102)

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