. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ITA/2 
22 December 2003  
 
(03-6697) 
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 government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of  Health 
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:    
Ministry of productive activities 
Department of Enterprise – General di rection of productive development  
Office F1-Technical inspectorate of indust ry – 00187 Rome I – Via Molise, 2  
tel. ++39 06 47052205  fax ++39 06 47887805;  vincenzo.correggia@minindustria.it
    
 
European Commission TBT Enquiry Point  ec-tbt@cec.eu.int  
 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [    ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X], 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):   Custom-made glasses 
and lenses 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:    
Interministerial Decree laying down "Amendment s to the Interministerial Decrees of 23 
July 1998 and 21 December 1999 on the sale to the public of custom-made glasses and 
lenses" ( 3 pages, in Italian).  
6.  
Description of content:    
The draft consists of a single article which amends three points of the Decree of 21 
December 1999 to: - explicitly exclude industrially manufactured pre-assembled glasses from the sale stock of opticians; - lay down that pre-assembled glasses for sale to the public must be accompanied by specific indications and instructions for use; 
- set a period of time for the clearance of existing stocks of pre-assembled glasses which do 
not conform to the provisions of the draft. G/TBT/N/ITA/2 
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Following the adoption of standards ISO 16034:2002 (E) and EN 14139:2000 (E), we 
consider it necessary to amend the Decrees whic h are now in force in order to lay down 
further and more detailed technical requi rements as well as specific warnings and 
precautions for use. 
8. Relevant documents:   - 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }March 2004 
10. Final date for comments:   3 March 2004 
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:   
[X] - see box 2 
Text on line at http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/tris/index_it.htm  
 
 