COUNTRY REPORT Slovak Republic (Observer) 9 th meeting of representatives from CEFTA countries responsible for conformity assessment Sofia, 7 th April 2006 1. Tasks and position of the Office in the field of conformity assessment and certification In the Slovak Republic, conformity assessment of products according to NAD s is performed according to the Act No. 264/1999 Coll. on technical requirements for products and on conformity assessment and on change and amendment of some Acts in the wording of Act No. 436/2001 Coll. and Act No. 254/2003 Coll. The Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and Testing (hereinafter referred to as Office ) is a central body of state administration in the field of technical standardization and conformity assessment that: a) elaborates and submits to the government conceptions in the field of technical standardization and conformity assessment, b) co-operates with the ministries and other central bodies of state administration in the competence of which there is the issuance of a technical regulation (hereinafter referred to as ministry ) and with other legal entities at the process of assurance of uniform application of technical requirements, conformity assessment and surveillance execution, c) ensures in co-operation with the ministries international exchange of information in the field of Slovak technical standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment according to international agreements by which the Slovak Republic is bound, d) designates a legal entity to provide for the development, approval and issuance of the Slovak technical standards e) designates a Slovak technical standard suitable for conformity assessment, f) announces the changes in the lists of European standards harmonized with technical regulations of European Communities, g) grants and withdraws the authorization and regularly checks the existence and fulfilment of conditions given in the decision on authorization by authorized body under this Act, h) publishes information on Slovak technical standards, on Slovak technical standards harmonized with technical regulation and Slovak technical standards suitable for conformity assessment; information on authorization granting and withdrawal to authorized body, including the contents of authorization, i) keeps register of the identification codes. The Office, at execution of surveillance over conformity assessment is entitled to place the obligation on authorized body to remove ascertained imperfection in its work and determine adequate time limit for its removal and inflict fines. 2. Changes in the legislation Since the last CEFTA meeting, two GO s have been amended (GO No. 222/2002 Coll. on Cableways installations designed to carry persons by GO No. 26/2006 Coll. and GO No. 433/2000 Coll. on Hot-wather boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels by GO No. 69/2006 Coll. which are fully compatible with particular directives).
Other three GO were published this year, but they become effective in the course of years 2006 2007. These are the following: - GO of the SR No. 194/2005 Coll. on Electromagnetic Compatibility of the Electric Equipment effective since 20 July 2007 (transposition of the Directive No. 2004/108/EC) - GO of the SR No. 294/2005 Coll. on Measuring Instruments - effective since 30 October 2006 (transposition of the Directive No. 2004/22/EC) - GO of the SR No. 79/2006 Coll. on Hot-water Boilers - effective since 11 August 2007 (transposition of the Directive No. 2005/32/EC) In non harmonized area SOSMT issued Decree No. 590/2004 on other determinate products. It contains only product from non harmonized area and determine the obligations for product from third countries. This measure (Decree on other determined products) and categorization of products in frame the other determined products failed its efficiency on December 31, 2005, so it is possible to place on the market 36 groups of products included in this legal regulation without conformity assessment procedure and certification. The review of the adopted governmental ordinances (see Annex II.). 3. Technical standardization The Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and Testing has performed activities in the field of technical standardisation coming out of the conceptual intents determined in point 3.1 and in Appendix No.1 of the State Policy Concept of technical standardization, metrology, testing and accreditation until 2008. The Office ensured conditions for the performance of the technical standardization at the international as well as the national level and availability of standards as competition tool for the Slovak companies by signing of the Contract No. 1 between SOSMT and Slovak Standards Institute. In 2005, 2642 Slovak technical standards and amendments were issued frame of this Contract, 600 of them represented harmonized and mandate standards. Within these activities stress was put on improvement of activity of technical committees (TK), particularly in the field of working out of national viewpoints to the individual European standard proposals. To involve all interested parties, including state administration bodies, playing important role in identification of possible conflicts between the national legislation and proposal of European standards (deviation A), to the work on standards, the Office has requested relevant ministries by means of Chairman s council for state policy and harmonization in technical standards for cooperation. Attention was paid to publication of harmonized and mandated EN standards, which create the supporting component of technical legislation and represented priority in the field of comments and working out of technical standardization plan for 2005. The Office paid also attention to prompt publication of harmonized Slovak standards (STN) to individual Governmental Ordinances, implementing EC/EU Directives, in the Bulletin of the SOSMT in accordance with notifications in Official Journal of EU. Slovak Standards Institute, as the national standardization body, fulfilled its tasks following from the membership of the Slovak Republic in the international (ISO, IEC) and European organizations for standardization (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI) and provided with information public and entrepreneurial subjects on the higher level as in previous years, which is important for the Slovak economy. The offer of products in electronic form has increased and parameters of so-called virtual standards shop were improved from the point of view of users comfort.
SOSMT in cooperation with Slovak Standards Institute submitted to the Slovak Government proposal of the Project of introducing of the mark of conformity with European standards European mark of conformity - Keymark into practice on the national level, which was approved by the Government in its Resolution No. 194 from March 9, 2005. In accordance with this Resolution has the Office deputed the Slovak Standards Institute to realize this Project. The aim of all these activities is to ensure the goal given by the concept to contribute to strengthening of compositeness of plants and to help to use in a sustainable way sources in trade, industry and society. In October 2005 in commemoration of the World Standards Day the Slovak Society for Technical Standardization in co-operation with SUTN (Slovak Standards Institute) and under the auspices of the President of the Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and Testing Mr. Arpád Gonda the SOSMT organized the seminar, on which the President of the SOSMT for the first time granted the Award of Vladimir List for standardization in five categories. Beginning with this year the award for standardization will carry the name of Vladimir List, the initiator of Czechoslovak standardization, who made an important contribution to the occurrence of national and international standardization. 4. Notified bodies Until now the Slovak Republic has implemented 33 New Approach directives (their list see in Annex I.) To execute conformity assessment pursuant these directives, the Slovak Republic notified 18 notified bodies. For Directive 97/23/EC we notified the other notified bodies for rest directives. They are responsible only for small part of this directive. They are as third competent party for non destructive testing and assessment of welding personal.
Annex I. List of Notified Bodies in the Slovak Republic No. NB No. Name of NB 1. 1293 SKTC-101, EVPÚ a.s. Nová Dubnica Short title of the Directives Machinery, ATEX, LVD, EMC, PPE, RTTE Active implantable MD, MD, Marine equipment, In vitro diagnostic MD, 2. 1294 SKTC-103, SÚDST s.r.o. Žilina Machinery, PPE, Noise emission 3. 1295 SKTC-111, Vipotest s.r.o. Partizánske PPE 4. 1296 SKTC-119, VÚTCH-CHEMITEX s.r.o. Žilina PPE, Safety of toys, MD 5. 1297 SKTC-115, VÚZ-PI SR, Bratislava Machinery, LVD, PPE, Pressure equipment, Transportable pressure equipment, MD, Simple pressure vessels, 6. 1298 SKTC-144, Cerot s.r.o. Bratislava PPE, MD 7. 1299 SKTC-104, TSÚ Piešťany š.p. Piešťany Machinery, LVD, EMC-CB, Safety of toys, Pressure equipment, Noise emission, Simple pressure vessels, Hot water boilers Appliances burning gaseous fuels, 8. 1300 SKTC-106, TSÚP, Rovinka Machinery, LVD, Noise emission 9. 1301 SKTC-105, TSÚS n.o. Bratislava Machinery 10. 1353 SKTC-175, TÜV Slovakia s.r.o. Bratislava 11. 1354 SKTC-169, TI Bratislava Machinery, LVD, Pressure equipment, Transportable pressure equipment, Cableway, Simple pressure vessels, Lifts ATEX, LVD, Machinery, Pressure equipment, Transportable pressure equipment, Cableway, Simple pressure vessels, Appliances burning gaseous fuels, Lifts 12. 1355 SKTC-171, VÚS n.o. Banská Bystrica EMC, RTTE 13. 1356 SKTC-117, ZV TEST s.r.o. Zvolen Machinery 14. 1357 SKTC-147, SOL-fakulta BERG TU, Košice Machinery, Cableway 15. 1358 SKTC-125, VÚD a.s. Žilina LVD, Machinery, Cableway, Pressure equipment, Simple pressure vessels, Lifts 16. 1359 SKTC-112, Konštrukta-Defence a.s. Dubnica n.v. Explosive for civil use 17. 1432 SKTC-177, SLM, Banská Bystrica NAWI 18. 1634 SKTC-118, VÚCHV a.s. Svit Safety of toys 19. SKTC-174, Reaktortest s.r.o. Trnava Pressure equipment 20. SKTC-176, Prvá zváračská a.s. Bratislava Pressure equipment
Annex II. List of GO and authorized and notified bodies Harmonized Area No Short title of Governmental Ordinance ý 1. Machinery 98/37/EC (98/79/EC) 2. Low Voltage 73/23/EEC () 3. Appliances burning gaseous fuels 90/396/EEC () 4. Electromagnetic compatibility 89/336/EEC (92/31/EEC, ) 5. Safety of toys 88/378/EEC () GO No. In force from 310/2004 15.5.2004 308/2004 15.5.2004 393/1999 1.1.2000 245/2004 15.4.2004 302/2004 28.4.2004 amendment In force from 148/2002 1.4.2002 302/2002 252/2003 1.8.2003 Notified Body SKTC (identification number) SKTC-103, SÚDST s.r.o. Žilina (1294) SKTC-105, TSÚS n.o. Bratislava (1301) SKTC-106, TSÚP Rovinka (1300) SKTC-115, VÚZ PI Bratislava (1297) SKTC-117, ZV-TEST s.r.o. Zvolen (1356) SKTC-147, SOL-fakulta BERG TU Košice (1357) SKTC-106, TSÚP Rovinka (1300) SKTC-115, VÚZ PI Bratislava (1297) SKTC-171, VÚS n.o. Banská Bystrica (1355) SKTC-118, VÚCHV a.s. Svit (1634) SKTC-119, VÚTCH-CHEMITEX s.r.o. Žilina (1296)
6. Non-automatic weighing instruments 90/384/EEC () 7. Refrigeration appliances 96/57/EC 8. Hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels 92/42/EEC () 9. Personal protective equipment (PPE) 89/686/EEC (,93/95/EEC,96/58/EC) 10. Equipment explosive atmospheres (ATEX) 94/9/EC 11. Explosives for civil uses 93/15/EEC 12. Recreational craft 94/25/EC (03/44/EC) 13. Marine equipment 96/98/EC (98/85/EC, 02/75/EC) 14. Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment 99/5/EC 15. Simple Pressure Vessels 87/404/EEC (90/488/EEC, ) 16. Lifts 95/16/EC 399/1999 1.1.2000 425/2000 1.1.2001 433/2000 1.1.2001 29/2001 1.4.2001 117/2001 1.4.2001 179/2001 1.6.2001 417/2004 1.1.2005 243/2001 1.7.2001 443/2001 1.1.2002 513/2001 1.1.2002 571/2001 1.1.2002 150/2002 1.4.2002 295/2002 253/2003 1.8.2003 293/2002 257/2003 1.8.2003 69/2006 21.2.2006 323/2002 296/2002 294/2002 25/2005 1.3.2005 307/2002 378/2004 1.7.2004 328/2003 1.9.2003 327/2003 1.9.2003 SKTC-177, SLM Banská Bystrica (1432) SKTC-103, SÚDST s.r.o. Žilina (1294) SKTC-111, Vipotest s.r.o. Partizánske (1295) SKTC-115, VÚZ PI Bratislava (1297) SKTC-119, VÚTCH-CHEMITEX s.r.o. Žilina (1296) SKTC-144, CEROT s.r.o. Bratislava (1298) SKTC-112, Konštrukta-Defence a.s. Dubnica n.v. (1395) SKTC-171, VÚS n.o. Banská Bystrica (1355) SKTC-104, TSÚ Piešťany š.p. (1299) SKTC-115, VÚZ PI Bratislava (1297)
17. In vitro diagnostic medical devices 98/79/EC 18. Active implantable medical devices 90/385/EEC (93/42/EEC, ) 19. Medical devices 93/42/EEC (98/79/EC,00/70/EC) 20. Cableway installations designed to carry persons 00/9/EC 21. Noise Emission 00/14/EC 22. Electric shifting devices of luminescent tube light sources 00/55/EC 23. Pressure equipment 97/23/EC 24. Transportable pressure equipment 99/36/EC 25. On airborne noise emitted by household appliances 86/594/EEC 26. Energy labelling of household washing machines 95/12/EC, 92/75/EEC 27. Energy labelling of household lamps 98/11/EC, 92/75/EEC 28. Energy labelling of household electric tumble driers 95/13/EC, 92/75/EEC 29. Energy labelling of household electric refrigerators, freezers and their combination 94/2/EC, 92/75/EEC 30. Energy labelling of household combined washer driers 96/60/EC, 92/75/EEC 569/2001 1.1.2002 570/2001 1.1.2002 572/2001 489/2004 SKTC-115, VÚZ PI Bratislava (1297) 1.1.2002 1.9.2004 SKTC-119, VÚTCH CHEMITEX s.r.o. Žilina (1296) SKTC-144, CEROT s.r.o. Bratislava (1298) 183/2002 222/2002 594/2002 1.1.2003 576/2002 1.1.2003 176/2003 1.6.2003 177/2002 178/2002 188/2002 193/2002 199/2002 210/2002 78/2004 28.1.2004 26/2006 11.1.2006 329/2003 1.9.2003 379/2004 1.7.2004 SKTC-147, SOL-fakulta BERG TU Košice (1357) SKTC-103, SÚDST s.r.o. Žilina (1294) SKTC-106, TSÚP Rovinka (1300) SKTC-115, VUZ PI Bratislava (1297) SKTC-174, Reaktortest s.r.o. Trnava SKTC-176, Prvá zváračská a.s. Bratislava SKTC-115, VÚZ PI Bratislava (1297)
31. Energy labeling of household dishwashers 97/17/EC, 92/75/EEC 32. Energy labeling of household electric ovens 02/40/EC, 92/75/EEC 33. Energy labeling of household climatic systems 02/31/EC, 92/75/EEC 211/2002 229/2003 1.7.2003 231/2003 1.7.2003 Inharmonized Area GO No. amendment No Short title of Governmental Ordinance In force from In force from Authorized Body SKTC 34. Firearms and ammunition 35. Pyrotechnical articles 397/1999 1.1.2000 398/1999 1.10.2000 296/2000 1.10.2000 380/2003 1.10.2003 297/2000 1.10.2000 SKTC-112, Konštrukta-Defence a.s. Dubnica n.v. SKTC-178, Liptovská skúšobňa s.r.o. L. Mikuláš SKTC-101, EVPÚ a.s. Nová Dubnica SKTC-112, Konštrukta-Defence a.s. Dubnica n.v. SKTC-129, VÚPC a.s. Lignotesting, Bratislava
Annex III. LIST OF DIRECTIVES which are implemented in the Slovak Republic No Directive Directive No. Amendment Regulation No. Amendment In since force Directives based on the New Approach 1. Construction Products 2. Electric Equipment Used within Certain Voltage Limits 3. Safety of Toys 4. Electromagnetic Compatibility of the Electric Equipment 5. Machinery 6. Non-automatic Weighing Instruments 7. Gas Appliances 8. 9. Requirements on Energetic Efficiency of the Electric Refrigerators, Freezers and other Household Equipment Energy Efficiency for Hot Water Boilers Fired with Liquid or Gaseous Fuels 89/106/EEC 73/23/EEC 88/378/EEC 89/336/EEC 92/31/EEC 98/37/EC 98/79/EC 90/384/EEC 90/396/EEC 96/57/EC 92/42/EEC 2004/8/EC 10. Explosives for Civil Uses 93/15/EEC 11. Personal Protective Equipment 12. Potentially Explosive Atmospheres ATEX 100A 13. Active Implantable Medical Devices 14. Medical Devices 89/686/EEC 93/95/EEC 96/58/EC 94/9/EC 90/385/EEC 93/42/EEC 93/42/EEC 98/79/EC 2000/70/EC Act 90/1998 1/10/1998 GO 308/2004 15/5/2004 GO 302/2004 28/4/2004 GO 245/2004 15/4/2004 GO 310/2004 15/5/2004 GO 399/1999 150/2002 GO 393/1999 148//2002 302/2002 252/2003 GO 425/2000 295/2002 253/2003 GO 433/2000 293/2002 257/2003 69/2006 GO 179/2001 294/2002 25/2005 GO 29/2001 323/2002 GO 117/2001 296/2002 1/1/2000 1/1/2000 1/1/2001 1/1/2001 1/6/2001 1/4/2001 1/4/2001 GO 570/2001 1/1/2002 GO 572/2001 489/2004 1/1/2002 15. In vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices 98/79/EC GO 569/2001 1/1/2002 16. Recreational Crafts 94/25/EC 03/44/EC GO 417/2004 1/1/2005 17. Lifts 95/16/EC GO 571/2001 327/2003 1/1/2002
18. Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment 19. Simple Pressure Vessels 99/5/EC GO 443/2001 1/1/2002 87/404/EEC 90/488/EEC 20. Pressure Equipment 97/23/EC 21. Cableway installation designed to carry passengers Directives based on the Global Approach 2000/9/EC GO 513/2001 328/2003 GO 576/2002 329/2003 GO 183/2002 78/2004 1/1/2002 1/10/2001 1/5/2002 22. Noise Emission 2000/14/EC GO 222/2002 2005/88/EC 26/2006 1/7/2002 23. Transportable pressure equipment 99/36/EC GO 176/2003 1/6/2003 24. Fluorescent lighting 2000/55/EC GO 594/2002 1/1/2003 Directives based on the principles of the New Approach or the Global Approach, but which do not provide for the CE marking 25. Packing and Packing Waste 94/62/EC Act 529/2002 26. Interoperability of the Trans-European System of the High-Speed Railways 96/48/EC 27. Marine Equipment 96/98/EC 98/85/EC 02/75/EC 28. Conventional rail system 2001/16/EC GO 243/2001 307/2002 378/2004 1/7/2001