Dear All, 

I just wanted to remind you that comments to Norway's Prohibition on 
Certain Hazardous Substances in Consumer Products (lovingly being referred 
to as PoHS) regulation via the TBT process is due this coming Friday, 
August 10.  I strongly recommend commenting on it.  I've attached the 
notification and full regulation (including what the document terms an 
"impact assessment"), but recommend signing up (if you aren't already) to 
DOC/NIST's Notify U.S. and sending your comments through the U.S. Inquiry 
Point ([log in to unmask]).  This will allow the USG to know what your main 
concerns are so that we can try to address them bilaterally and 
multilaterally and often makes it more likely that foreign governments 
will respond to them. 

To sign up to Notify U.S. and view this and other notifications, please 
visit: www.nist.gov/notifyus.

For those that can not receive attachments, please sign up to Notify U.S. 
- both the TBT notification as well as the full 54 page draft regulation 
are available on the site.

I would also urge you to contact and encourage your industry colleagues 
and associations in other countries to comment as well.  Additionally, 
even if you are unable to submit comments by the August 10th TBT deadline, 
I would still encourage you to submit comments to the U.S. Inquiry Point 
as Norway's domestic comment period (as well as the comment period for the 
EU) will remain open until September 1, 2007. 

My colleague Christine Brown has also provided some very useful info. 
found below. 

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Info on Norway's domestic comment period: September 1, 2007 deadline:  the 
website is in Norwegian, but is available at: <
http://www.sft.no/artikkel____41146.aspx?cid=29310>.  The three contacts 
listed at the bottom of the website are:  (NOTE: the English titles are 
not EXACT translations)

Sjefingeniør Inger Grethe England, seksjon for produktrettet miljøvern 
(Cheif Engineer of the Hazardous Substances Section) 

Avdelingsdirektør Anne Mari Opheim, lokalmiljøavdelingen (Director of 
Local Hazards Department) telefon 22 57 35 37, e-post: 
[log in to unmask]

Seksjonssjef Berit Ellefsen Gjerstad, seksjon for produktrettet miljøvern 
(Section Chief for Hazardous Substances) telefon: 22 57 36 58, e-post: 
[log in to unmask]

Below is the link to the notification to the EU: (2007/9016/N - C10C) - 
deadline is September 1, 2007
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tris/pisa/app/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=pisa_notif_overview&sNlang=EN&iyear=2007&inum=9016&lang=EN&iBack=2

Best,
Jon


Jon Boyens
Standards Coordinator for Manufacturing Industries;
Associate Director,
Office of Technology and E-commerce 
U.S. Department of Commerce
T: 202-482-0573
F: 202-482-0952
http://Export.gov/infotech
www.standards.gov
www.manufacturing.gov



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