NETHERLANDS: BUILDING MATERIALS RESOLUTION The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 95.57. 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. 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): The order implementing the building materials resolution gives further details of a number of subdivisions of the draft building materials resolution. This resolution concerns granular (both primary and secondary) building materials only. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Order Implementing the Building Materials Resolution. 6. Description of Content: The Order Implementing the Building Materials Resolution is based on the building material resolution. In implementation of the national environmental policy plan, the building materials resolution specifies the preconditions relating to environmental hygiene for the use of residues and waste products as building materials. This is designed on the one hand to encourage recycling and on the other to prevent further cases of water/soil pollution. The Order Implementing the Building Materials Resolution lays down additional technical regulations detailing more generally worded rules in the building materials resolution. The regulation concerns: (a) determining whether a material can be regarded as a building material and as a result be covered by the building materials resolution; (b) determining whether or not a building material has been formed in conjunction with the distinction made in the building materials resolution between formed and non-formed building materials; (c) determing the composition of clear ground in conjunction with the distinction made in the building materials resolution between clean and unclean ground; (d) determining the emissions in the soil and surface water as a conference of the emission of polluted materials from category I and category II building materials in conjunction with the testing of the use of these building materials for the emission limit values given in the building materials resolution; and (e) the isolation measures which must be taken in accordance with the building materials resolution in the event of use of category II building materials and one or two specific building materials. The Order Implementing the Building Materials Resolution also contains a small number of implementation provisions. The Order Implementing the Building Materials Resolution will be supplemented at a later date by a number of technical regulations concerning, amongst other things, the definition of the position of building materials, see the currently blank chapters and paragraphs of the regulation. In due course this so-called second block will also be re-notified. 7. Objective and rationale: The Order Implementing the Building Materials Resolution is essential for the introduction of the building materials resolution and its practical operation. 8. Relevant documents: The Order Implementing the Building Materials Resolution refers to the documents mentioned in the attached list. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 3 November 1995. 10. Final date for comments: 20 April 1995. (082)

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