. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/GEO/3 
19 January 2004  
 
(04-0152) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   GEORGIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   State Department of Standardisa tion, Metrology and Certification of 
Georgia - Geostandard Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:         
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 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):   Adoption of 
international and regional standards 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Orders of the 
Chairmen of Geostandard #330, #331, 10 Oct ober 2003, "Adoption of Intergovernmental 
Standards for Application on the Territory of Georgia" (15 pages) 
6. Description of content:   The decree provides that Georgia will apply ISO standards and 
inter-governmental standards of CIS adopted after 1991 in the area of food industry, 
agriculture and in construction, which have not been applied in Georgia. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:   It 
aims at the harmonization of Georgian standard ization system with international standards. 
8. Relevant documents:   ISO standards- the list is attached..  GOST – standards in the fields 
of agriculture and construction. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }20 October 2003 
10. Final date for comments:   - 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [    ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Geostandard 
Tbilisi, Chargali str. 67 Tel.:  (995 32) 61 76 80; Published in the official journal "Saka nonmdeblo Matsne", (legislative News) #121, 
20 October 2003 G / T B T / N / G E O / 3            
Page 2  
 
ANNEX 
 
 ISO  607:1980  Surface active agents and detergents.  Methods of sample division ISO  834:1975  Fire-resistance test.  Elements of building construction 
ISO  1666:1973  Starch.  Determination of moisture method 
ISO  2165:74  Ware potatoes.  Guide to storage ISO  2166:81  Carrots.  Guide to storage ISO  2167:1981  Round-headed cabbage.  Guide to cold storage and refrigerated transport 
ISO  2881:1077  Tobacco and tobacco products .  Determination of alkaloid content 
ISO  2918:1992  Meat and meat products.  Determination of nitrite content 
ISO  2971:1987  Cigarettes and filter rods.  Dete rmination of mineral diameter of the ends 
ISO  3091:1975  Meat and meat products.  Determination of nitrate content 
ISO  3093:1982  Cereals.  Determination of faling number ISO  3188:1978  Starches and derived products.  Dete rmination of nitrogen content by the Kjeldahl 
method.  Titrametic method. 
ISO  3550:1985  Cigarettes.  Determination of loss of tobacco from the end ISO  3593:1981  Starch.  Determination of ash ISO  3593:2000  Cigarettes.  Genera specification ISO  3946:1982  Starches and derived products.  Determination of total phosphorous content.  
Spectrophotometric method. 
ISO  3947:1977  Starches native or modified .  Determination of total fat content 
ISO  4874:1981  Tobacco.  Sampling of batches of raw material.  General principles ISO  5314:1981  Fertilizers.  Determination of ammo niacal nitrogen content.  Titrimetric method after 
distillation ISO  5378:1978  Starches and derived products.  Dete rmination of nitrogen content by the Kjeldach 
method.  Spectrophotometric method 
ISO  5379:1983  Starches and derived products.  De termination of sulphur dioxide content.  
Acidimetric method and nephelometric method. ISO  5554:1978  Meat products.  Determination of starch content ISO  5809:1982  Starches and derived produc ts.  Determination of sulphated ash 
ISO  58101982  Starches and derived products.  Determ ination of chloride content.  Potentiometric 
method. 
ISO  6540:1980  Maize.  Determination of moistu re content (on milled grains and fnd on whole 
grains) ISO  6565:1997  Tobacco and tobacco products.  Dr aw resistance of cigarettes and filter rods.  
Definitions, standard c ondition and general aspects 
ISO  6644:1997  Cereals and milled cereals products .  Automatic sampling by mechanical means 
ISO  7304:1994  Durum wheat semolinas and alimenta ry pasta.  Estimation of cooking quality of 
spaghetti by sensory analysis ISO  7801:1984  Metallic materials.   Wire.  Reverse bend test 
ISO 7971:1986  Cereals.  Determination of bulk density, called "mass per hectolitre" 
ISO  8243:1991 Cigarettes.  Sampling 
ISO  9512:1996  Cigarettes.  Determination of ventilation 
ISO  10362.1:1991  Cigarettes.  Determination of water in smoke condensates.  Gas chromatographic 
method ISO  10362.2:1994  Cigarettes.  Determination of water in smoke condensates.  Karl Fischer method 
 
 
__________