G/TBT/N/RWA/393  
20 November 2020  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  RWANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)  
KK 15 Rd, 49  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw   
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw  
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 [   ], other : 2.9.2 
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN  where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Fertilizers 
(ICS 65.080)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DRS 279: 2020 
Organic fertilizer — Specification  (23 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Rwanda Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods of organic fertilizers.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer i nformation, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Protection of animal or plant life or health; Protection of the environment; Quality 
requirements; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
• AOAC  2006.03, Arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, lead, molybdenum, nickel, 
and selenium in fertilizers — Microwave digestion and inductively coupled plasma -
optical emission spectrometry  
• EN 13475, Liming materials — Determination of calcium content — Oxalate 
method  
• EN 16032, Fertilizers — Extraction and determination of elemental sulfur  
• EN 16197, Fertilizers — Determination of magnesium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
• EN 16198, Fertilizers — Determination of magnesium by complexometry  G/TBT/N/RWA/393  
 
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  • EN 16963, Fertilizers — Determination of boron, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, 
molybdenum and zinc using ICP -AES 
• EN 16965, Fertilizers — Determination of cobalt, copper, iron, manganese and 
zinc using flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS)  
• ISO 6579, Microbiology of food an d animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 6598, Fertilizers — Determination of phosphorus content — Quinoline 
phosphomolybdate gravimetric method  
• ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
• ISO 7409, Fertilizers — Marking — Presentation and declarations  
• ISO 8157, Fertilizers and soil conditioners — Vocabulary  
• ISO 8397, Solid fe rtilizers and soil conditioners — Test sieving  
• ISO 10390, Soil quality — Determination of pH  
• ISO 10694, Soil quality — Determination of organic and total carbon after dry 
combustion (elementary  analysis)  
• ISO 11047, Soil quality — Determination of cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, 
lead, manganese, nickel and zinc — Flame and electrothermal atomic absorption 
spectrometric methods  
• ISO 11261, Soil quality — Determination of total nitrogen — Modified Kjeldahl 
method  
• ISO 11265, Soil quality — Determination of th e specific electrical conductivity  
• ISO 11465, Soil quality — Determination of dry matter and water content on a 
mass basis — Gravimetric method  
• ISO 14820 -1, Fertilizers and liming materials — Sampling and sample preparation 
— Part 1: Sampling  
• ISO 14820 -2, Fertilizers and liming materials — Sampling and sample preparation 
— Part 2: Sample preparation  
• ISO 15178, Soil quality — Determination of total sulfur by dry combustion  
• ISO 17318, Fertilizers and soil conditioners — Determination of arsenic, cadm ium, 
chromium, lead and mercury contents  
• ISO 17184, Soil quality — Determination of carbon and nitrogen by near -infrared 
spectrometry (NIRS)  
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  G/TBT/N/RWA/393  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
KK 15 Rd, 49  
Toll Free: 3250  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw  
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
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