G/TBT/N/DOM/221/Rev.1  
27 May 2021 
(21-4391) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Instituto Dominicano para la Calidad , INDOCAL (Dominican Institute for Quality)  
Calle Olof Palme esquina Av . Núñez de Cáceres  
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic  
Tel.: 1 809 686 2205  
Website: http://indocal.gob.do  
Email: indocal@indocal.gob.do  / pcamilo@indocal.gob.do  
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:  
Calle Olof Palme esquina Av . Núñez de Cáceres  
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic  
Tel.: 1 809 686 2205  
Website: http://indocal.gob.do  
Email: indocal@indocal.gob.do  / pcamilo@indocal.gob.do  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : ICS 
17.020.00 ; METROLOGY AND MEASUREMENT . PHYSICAL PHENOMENA ( ICS 17 ), 
Metrology and measurement in general ( ICS 17 .020)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Aprobación de 
modelo de instrumentos de medida (procedimiento general)  (Approval of measuring 
instrument patterns (General procedure)), (20 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : Terms and definitions, responsibilities, pattern approval 
application procedure, modification of an approved pattern, pattern famil ies, submission 
of samples, patte rn evaluation, ratification  of pattern certificates issued by other 
countries, validity and withdrawal of pattern approval, sample examination application 
form.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The noti fied Metrological Technical Regulation (RTM) sets out general 
procedures for the approval of patterns for new measuring instruments that are subject 
to metrological control ; Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection.  G/TBT/N/DOM/221/Rev.1  
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  8. Relevant documents : Ley No. 166-12 sobre el Sistema Dominicano para la Calidad ; 
OIML V 1, International vocabulary of terms in legal metrology, Edition 2013 ; Vocabulario 
internacional de metrología . Conceptos fundamentales y generales y términos asociados 
(VIM).  3ra edición año 2012 ; International Document OIML D 19 : 1988 - Pattern 
evaluation and pattern approval ; NORDOM 100: S istema Internacional de Unidades de 
Medidas (SI) , (1ra Rev. 2018) . 
9. Proposed date of adoption Date to be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : Date to be determined  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Calle Olof Palme esquina Av . Núñez de Cáceres  
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic  
Tel.: 1 809 686 2205  
Website: http:/ /indocal.gob.do  
Email: indocal@indocal.gob.do  / pcamilo@indocal.gob.do  
 
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