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Notifying Member: Lithuania

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible:

Ministry of Environment

A. Jaksto g.4/9

LT-01105 Vilnius

Lithuania

Tel.: +370  706 63568

Fax:+370 5 2663663

E-mail: irena.urnikiene@am.lt

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:

EC TBT Enquiry Point: ec-tbt@cec.eu.int

National TBT Enquiry Point: enquiry@lsd.lt

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Construction products

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft Order  of the Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Lithuania on the approval of the Technical Construction Regulation STR 1.01.04:2015 "Assessment, verification of constancy of performance of construction products for which there are no harmonized technical specifications and declaration of performance of such products. Designation of testing laboratories and certification bodies. National Technical Assessments and designation and notification of Technical Assessment Bodies" (hereinafter STR 1.01.04:2015) (34 pages, in Lithuanian)

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Description of content: STR 1.01.04:2015 establishes: the systems of assessment and verification of constancy of performance of construction products for which there are no harmonized standards or European Technical Assessments (hereinafter ETA); the form of declaration of performance of such products; the procedure for designation of testing laboratories and certification bodies and requirements for the bodies intending to be designated; main requirements for the preparation, approval, registration, reproduction and publishing of National Technical Approvals of construction products for which there are no harmonized standards or European Technical Assessments; procedures for the designation of Technical Assessment Bodies (hereinafter TABs) seeking to be designated in the Republic of Lithuania in accordance with the Law on Construction of the Republic of Lithuanian and (or) the Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC (hereinafter the Regulation (EU) No 305/2011) to prepare and issue the relevant National Technical Assessments (hereinafter NTA) and (or) the ETAs, the procedures of monitoring of their activity and competence.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: The Draft Order is prepared with the aim to consolidate and make clearer, more transparent the legal regulation in the following areas: assessment, verification of constancy of performance of construction products for which there are no harmonized standards of ETAs, declaration of performance of such products; designation of testing laboratories and certification bodies; preparation, approval, registration, reproduction and publishing of NTAs; procedures for the designation of TABs seeking to be designated in the Republic of Lithuania in accordance with the Law on Construction of the Republic of Lithuanian and (or) of the Regulation (EU) No. 305/2011 to prepare and issue the relevant NTAs and (or) the ETAs; the procedures of monitoring of the activity and competence of TABs.

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Relevant documents: The Law on Construction of the Republic of Lithuania, the List of Construction Products Subject to Regulation approved on 28 January 2015 by the Order No. D1-80 of the Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Lithuania.

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Proposed date of adoption: Not specified

Proposed date of entry into force: Not specified

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Final date for comments: 60 days after circulation by WTO  Secretariat

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body: enquiry@lsd.lt