G/TBT/N/TZA/750  
25 April 2022  
(22-3265) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  TANZANIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Tanzania Bureau of Standards;  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo;  
P O BOX 9524;  
Telephone: +255 222450206;  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz ; 
Website: www.tbs.go.tz.  
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:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ],3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other  :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Plates, 
sheets, film, foil and strip, of non -cellular plastics, n.e.s., not reinforced, laminated,  
supported or similarly combined with other materials, without backing, unworked or 
merely surface -worked or merely cut into squares or rectangles (excl. self -adhesive 
products, floor, wall and ceiling coverings of heading 3918 and sterile surgical or dent al 
adhesion barriers of subheading 3006.10.30) (HS code(s): 392099); Packaging materials 
and accessories (ICS code(s): 55.040)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  GDC 4 (1079) 
DTZS, Lamination Plastic films - Specification,  1st Edition; (8 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft Tanzania standard specifies requirements, methods 
of sampling and testing for plastic films used for lamination purposes.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Quality requirements  G/TBT/N/TZA/750  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• ISO 527 -3:2018 Plastics — Determination of tensile properties — part 3: test 
conditions for films and sheets  
• ISO 14782 Plastics — Determination  of haze for transparent materials  
• ISO 8296:2003 Plastics — Film and sheeting — determination of wetting tension  
• ISO 2556:1974 Plastics — Determination of the gas transmission rate of films and 
thin sheets under atmospheric pressure — manometric method  
• ISO 2528:2017 Sheet materials — Determination of water vapour transmission 
rate (WVTR) — gravimetric (dish) method  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  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:   
Contact person(s):Ms. Bahati Samillani (NEP officer) and Mr. Clavery Chausi  
Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)  
Morogoro/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O Box 9524  
Dar Es Salaam  
+(255) 22 2450206  
nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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