Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - Hungary - Special fire protection requirements

NOTIFICATION

The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6

 

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Notifying Member: Hungary

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

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Agency responsible:

Ministry of Interior - Controlling Department

Dr. Gergely Farkas

József Attila utca 2-4.

1051 Budapest

Tel.: (361) 999-4335

Fax: (361) 441-1537

E-mail: gergely.farkas@bm.gov.hu

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:  

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Notified under Article 2.9.2X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 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): Building products, fire-fighting technical products, electric equipment, inflammable or explosive appliances, machines, equipment, combustible liquids, gases and fusions

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft of Ministry of Interior Decree on the Special Fire Protection Requirements Related to the Application of Atomic Energy, and the Ways of Enforcing Them in the Activities of the Authorities (35 pages, in Hungarian)

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Description of content: A complete revision of the legal regulations related to the subject, with the involvement of the affected authorities, the existing and future licence holders, and relying on the current knowledge available in technical development. In the course of this, the explanatory provisions about the subject were defined, as well as the Nuclear Fire Protection Regulation, the Radioactive Waste Deposit Fire Protection Regulation and the Organisational Rules, as well as special rules regarding official checking. The draft specifies the fire protection requirements of temporary dry storages of burnt-out nuclear heating elements of nuclear power plants and research reactors, and of the radioactive waste storage facilities used for the temporary storage or the final deposit of radioactive waste.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: In Hungary, the special fire protection requirements related to atomic energy are presently regulated by ÖTM (Minister of Local Authorities and Rural Development) decree 19/2007. (VIII.29.) on specific fire protection rules for use of atomic energy and on the enforcement of the rules by the authorities (hereinafter: D). The completely revised version of the Ministry of Interior decree on National Fire Protection Regulations (hereinafter NFPR) is under finalisation, following the technical development and the adoption of EU standards. The concept of the new NFPR breaks with the valid regulation. Considering the fact that some parts of the D are based on the valid NFPR, in order to establish coherence with the new regulations, it is necessary to issue a new minister's decree. The new regulation is based on two basic considerations. The draft defines the fire protection requirements in a way that they do not make the operation of the existing nuclear power plant impossible, but in the case of an extension, maximum security level could be defined, based on the current knowledge available in technical development.

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Relevant documents: Act CXVI of 1996 on Nuclear Energy

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Proposed date of adoption:   First half of 2015

Proposed date of entry into force:   First half of 2015

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Final date for comments: 5 January 2015

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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:

Hungarian Technical Notification Centre and TBT Contact Point

Ministry of Justice Affairs

Kossuth tér. 2-4.

Budapest

H-1055

Tel: (361) 795-5733,

E-mail: technicalnotification@im.gov.hu

Or website address (notification 2014/487/HU):

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tris/en/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2014&num=478