SLOVAK REPUBLIC: BUILDINGS INHABITED BY HUMANS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.96.331. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: Slovak Republic. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Slovak Ministry of Construction and Public Works (MVVP SR) 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): Buildings inhabited by humans. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: STN 73 0540 Amendment 5: Thermo-Technical Properties of Engineering Structures and Buildings. Nomenclature, Requirements and Criteria (8 pages, available in Slovak). 6. Description of content: Design and inspection of engineering structures and building rooms destined for permanent residence of humans. The criteria of minimum temperatures of inner surfaces (hygiene criteria) and maximum power consumption for heating for comparison of designs on the basis of the heat loss balance (energetic criteria) are required for thermo-technical designs of engineering structures and buildings with given conditions of inner environment. Given values for engineering structures thermal resistance, respectively heat transfer coefficients are recommended values. Criterial requirements and recommended values are given for reconstructed and new buildings including blocks of flats, family houses, and municipal buildings, respectively. The Slovak Standard STN 73 0540 possesses the character of recommendation, with the exception of paragraphs 3, 21, 22, 23, respectively, which were made obligatory. 7. Objective and rationale: The amendment of this STN Standard was submitted with the aim to provide higher level of the construction quality, as well as better conditions for creative work of the engineers. Besides thermo-technical quality, hygienic conditions, and reducing power consumption, also the economy of proposed construction designs is taken into consideration. Unification of the dimension variables with the foreign standards was also provided. 8. Relevant documents: STN 73 0540 Amendment 5, amends the original Standard CSN (STN) 73 0540:1977. Amendment 5 revokes all previous amendments related to the above given Standard, including Amendment 4; comparable regulation: Verordnung uber einen energiesparenden Warmeschutz bei Gebauden: Warmeschutzverordnung-Warmeschutz V, valid in Germany from 1 January 1995; information concerning adoption will be published in: Vestnik UNMS SR (Official Journal); will be published in Vestnik MVVP SR (Journal of the Slovak Ministry of Construction and Public Works) after adoption. 9. Proposed date of adoption: Proposed date of entry into force: 1 January 1997. 10. Final date for comments: 30 November 1996. (282)

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