(Technical attestation)

This Technical Arrangement and its Annexes may be changed or amended in writing with the mutual consent of the Parties in accordance with Article 8.

The form of technical guidelines shall be prescribed by the minister responsible for spatial planning and construction matters with the approval of the relevant ministers.

By agreement of the Parties, joint working groups of technical experts may be formed to exchange technical information and to make proposals on technical and training matters related to the effective implementation of this Agreement.

With the agreement of the Executive Council, further laboratories may be certified by the Technical Secretariat to perform the routine analysis of samples from manual monitoring stations where necessary.

By mutual agreement of both Parties, technical workshops, consultations, site surveys and acceptance testing of materials and installed equipment may be conducted.

Where no agreement is reached in the Technical Committee on the question referred to it by a panel, the Technical Committee shall provide a report detailing the facts of the matter and indicating the views of the members.

(2) The material, data and technical equipment forwarded pursuant to this Agreement may be sent to a third country only subject to the written approval by the competent authority of the sending Contracting Party.

The forwarding of materials delivered in accordance with this Agreement, of data and technical equipment to any third State is possible only upon a written consent of the competent authority of the Contracting Party that originally delivered such data.

Technical guidelines for the project design, construction and maintenance of buildings shall be issued by the minister responsible for spatial planning and construction matters with the approval of the minister responsible for the placement of construction products on the market.

Amendments to the Technical Annex shall be adopted by consensus of the Parties present at a meeting of the Executive Body and shall become effective thirty days after the date on which they have been communicated in accordance with paragraph 5 below.

Technical guidelines for those types of civil engineering works that fall into their field of work shall be issued by the relevant ministers with the approval of the minister responsible for the placement of construction products on the market.

Scientists, technical experts and institutions of third countries or international organisations may be invited, with the consent of both cooperating partners, to participate in projects and programmes being carried out under this Agreement.

a) Consensus shall be the normal method whereby the General Assembly shall adopt draft resolutions of a general, scientific, technical, economic or legal nature, and for the creation or discontinuance of Commissions and Sub-Commissions.

Citizens of parties to the dispute shall not serve on a technical expert group without the joint agreement of the parties to the dispute, except in exceptional circumstances when the panel considers that the need for specialized scientific expertise cannot be fulfilled otherwise.

Representatives of the project approving authorities that stipulated the conditions or granted approval for the project solutions for the construction must sit on the technical inspection commission. If deemed necessary because of the technical or other specifications of the works, other experts may be appointed to the commission.

(9) The Administration may use /confirmation/s, authorities, consents and technical findings of foreign civil aviation bodies and persons which such bodies appoint or authorise in order more easily to perform tasks under this Act, and may on the basis of exchange, provide similar services to foreign bodies and institutions.

Amendments to the Protocol, other than amendments to its Technical Annex, shall be adopted by consensus of the Parties present at a meeting of the Executive Body, and shall enter into force for the Parties which have accepted them on the ninetieth day after the date on which two-thirds of the Parties have deposited their instruments of acceptance thereof.

The minister responsible for spatial planning and construction matters shall prescribe, with the approval of the relevant ministers into whose field of work the individual type of works falls, the detailed content of the project and technical documentation, the method for drawing it up, and the types of plans that come into consideration for individual types of buildings and civil engineering works with regard to their purpose of use.

II.1.3 National institutions under the jurisdiction of Republic of Slovenia may, at the Agency's request and with the agreement of the Republic of Slovenia, provide technical support for one or more activities to be executed under the PECS; where appropriate, such support shall be covered by an exchange of letters between the institution concerned and the Agency, which shall be forwarded for information to all the other ECSs and to the Council of the Agency.

1. as administrator of a public airport it does not communicate to the Administration required data for publication of general conditions for the use of the public airport, tariffs and prices (first paragraph of Article 95), 2. it erects new or increases or raises the height of existing obstructions without the prior consent of the competent body (first and second paragraphs of Article 112) 3. an obstruction constructed or increased without consent or without taking into account the conditions of the consent is not removed at the owner` s expense (fourth paragraph of Article 112), 4. as operator or administrator of an airport, air carrier or provider of ground care services does not participate in the preparation and implementation of measures and procedures of security or does not proceed in compliance with the provisions of this Act and regulations issued on its basis or in compliance with security programmes and other instructions (second and third paragraphs of Article 125), 5. as administrator of a public airport does not provide technical and technological security conditions (third paragraph of Article 127) 6. as administer of an airport does not publish security instructions and bans for passengers and other persons in a suitable manner (second paragraph of Article 131), 7. as owner of an infrastructure facility who is not also owner of the land on which the facility is located does not ensure that this facility serves permanently only for the purposes of the airport (fourth paragraph of Article 156), 8. as operator of other infrastructure at a public airport located in an individual part of the airport, does not care for maintenance of such infrastructure (fifth paragraph of Article 158), 9. as administrator of a public airport determines operating times of the public airport without the prescribed coordination (first paragraph of Article 162), 10. as operator of a public airport of local importance does not ensure operation of the airport in compliance with decisions of the Administration (second paragraph of Article 162).

European technical approval

EUROPEAN TECHNICAL APPROVAL

(3) A European attestation shall be used for the procurement of construction works.

'European technical approval':

(1) Technical attestation is a positive technical assessment of suitability of a product for the intended use.

European technical approvals are issued by an approval body designated for this purpose by the Member State;

The procedure for attesting conformity as set out in Annex II shall be indicated in mandates for guidelines for European technical approval.

(2) A European technical attestation is a positive technical assessment of suitability of a product for the intended use based on the fulfilment of basic requirements for the intended construction. A European attestation shall be issued by a body competent to issue technical attestations.

"European technical approval" means a favourable technical assessment of the fitness for use of a product, based on the fulfilment of the essential requirements for building works, by means of the inherent characteristics of the product and the defined conditions of application and use.

c) technical approvals applicable in the Republic of Slovenia.

European technical approvals are issued by an approval body designated for this purpose by the Member State;

European technical approval may be granted to:

The procedure for attesting conformity as set out in Annex III shall be indicated in the relevant European technical approvals.

The roof covering products/materials referred to in the table below shall comply with the relevant technical specification (harmonised European standard or European technical approval).

The procedure for attesting conformity as set out in Annex II shall be indicated in mandates for guidelines for European technical approvals.

The procedure for attesting conformity as set out in Annex III shall be indicated in mandates for guidelines for European technical approvals.

provide the Commission with the technical assistance necessary to take part in the work of the technical bodies of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control;

For the product(s) and intended use(s) listed below, EOTA is requested to specify the following system(s) of attestation of conformity in the relevant guideline for European technical approvals:

Commission Decision of 26 September 2000 on the procedure for attesting the conformity of construction products pursuant to Article 20(2) of Council Directive 89/106/EEC as regards six products for European Technical Approvals without Guideline

either by reference to technical specifications defined in Annex XXI and, in order of preference, to national standards transposing European standards, European technical approvals, common technical specifications, international standards, other technical reference systems established by the European standardisation bodies or - when these do not exist - national standards, national technical approvals or national technical specifications relating to the design, calculation and execution of the works and use of the products.

(2) Contractors shall define technical specifications by referring to laws, technical regulations and standards in force in the Republic of Slovenia or - in the absence of Slovenian technical regulations and standards in the Republic of Slovenia - by referring to European standards or European technical licenses or common technical specifications.

Where a contracting entity uses the option provided for in paragraph 3 of laying down performance or functional requirements, it may not reject a tender for products, services or works which comply with a national standard transposing a European standard, with a European technical approval, a common technical specification, an international standard, or a technical reference system established by a European standardisation body, if these specifications address the performance or functional requirements which it has laid down.

(1) When a technical inspection, a trial operation, or any other preliminary process is prescribed for the issuing of an operating or other license for an activity for which an environmental consent has been issued, the Ministry must be included in its execution in order to establish the congruence of the executed activity with the components of the project that have been subject to an environmental impact assessment.

1. if standards, technical approvals or general technical specifications or project documents do not include any provisions for establishing conformity, or, if there are no technical means to satisfactorily establish the conformity of a product or service with these standards, technical approvals or general technical specifications or project documents,

"harmonised standard" means a technical specification adopted by CEN, CENELEC or ETSI or jointly by two or all of these organisations, at the request of the Commission pursuant to Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services(10) and prepared in accordance with the General Guidelines agreed between the Commission and the European standards organisations;

(2) The Government may issue its approval for the establishing of the economic zone on the basis of a written request of the founder containing in particular data on: 1. the applicant, 2. activities to be performed in the economic zone, 3. location of the economic zone along with an official extract from the spatial documentation, 4. the size of the economic zone, 5. organisation and method of operation of the economic zone, 6. technical and other conditions of work in the economic zone, and 7. method of setting conditions for the work of customs authorities within the economic zone.

Where a contracting authority uses the option laid down in paragraph 3 to prescribe in terms of performance or functional requirements, it may not reject a tender for works, products or services which comply with a national standard transposing a European standard, with a European technical approval, a common technical specification, an international standard or a technical reference system established by a European standardisation body, if these specifications address the performance or functional requirements which it has laid down.