SLOVAK REPUBLIC: PAINTING SHOPS, DRYING HOUSES, ETC. The following notification has been received in GATT Document TBT/Notification G/TBT/95.17 dated 30 January 1995. 1. Member to agreement notifying: Slovak Republic if applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic (MISR). 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): painting shops, drying houses and other arrangements used for performing surface treatments. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: regulation of the Misr. No. Determining technical specifications for fire safety during product surface treatment with the use of painting materials. 6. Description of content: the proposal of the regulation specifies basic requirements regarding fire safety applied in the drawing plans and in the operation of the painting shop and belated technological arrangements which are integral parts of performing surface treatments. Besides the requirements for the project layouts of these arrangements, the proposal of the regulation includes also the fire safety arrangement for their operation. The proposal also deals with the problems of the arrangements which had been operated or designed before the regulation comes into effect. Key words: product surface treatment, fire safety, painting materials, fixed extinguishing installation, flooding (drowning out) installations, local flaming indication, automatic application of painting materials, automatic fire alarm, exhausting ventilation. 7. Objective and rationale: reasons for compiling this generally obligatory regulation are based on the necessity to control the activities connected with increased fire hazard that appears during the surface treatment technologies using the painting materials. Also it is based on the provisions of the Act No. 142/1991 requiring the harmonization of the national legislation with those of the EC. 8. Relevant documents: none identified. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 1 July 1995. 10. Final date for comments: 30 April 1995. (054)

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