G/TBT/N/BDI/115  
18 May 2021  
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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:  BURUNDI   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Burundi Bureau of Standards and Quality Control (BBN)  
Boulevard de la Tanzanie N° 500  
BP: 3535 Bujumbura, Burundi  
Tel: +25722221815/+25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbnburundi.org  
Website: www.bbnburundi.org  
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 [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):  Other 
paper products (ICS 85.080.99)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Paper sacks for 
packaging of cement — Specification (14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies r equirements, 
sampling and test methods for valve sewn -gusseted and valve -pasted ends paper sacks 
for packaging of cement  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Quality require ments; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
• ISO 186, Paper and board — Sampling to determine average quality  
• ISO 187, Paper board and pulps — Standard atmosphere for conditioning and 
testing and procedure for monitoring the atmosphere and conditioning of samples  
• ISO 287, Paper and board — Determination of moisture content of a lot — 
Oven-drying method  
• ISO 535, Paper and board — Determination of water absorptiveness — Cobb 
method  
• ISO 536, Paper and board — Determination of grammage  
• ISO 1924 -3, Paper and board — Determination of tensile properties — Part 3: 
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  • ISO 1974, Paper — Determination of tearing resistance — Elmendorf method  
• ISO 2060, Textiles — Yarn from packages — Determination of linear de nsity 
(mass per unit length) by the skein method  
• ISO 5079, Textile fibres — Determination of breaking force and elongation at 
break of individual fibres  
• ISO 5636 -3, Paper and board — Determination of air permeance (medium range) 
— Part 3: Bendtsen method  
• ISO 6590 -1, Packaging — Sacks — Vocabulary and types — Part 1: Paper sacks  
• ISO 7965 -1, Packaging — Sacks — Drop test — Part 1: Paper sacks  
• ISO 8791 -2, Paper and board — Determination of roughness/smoothness (air leak 
methods) — Part 2: Bendtsen meth od 
• ISO 21067, Packaging — Vocabulary — Part 2: Packaging and the environment 
terms  
• KS 2497:2013, Multi -wall paper sacks for packaging of cement - Specification  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months from adoption  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Documentation and Information Centre Division at BBN  
Boulevard de la Tanzanie N° 500  
BP: 3535 Bujumbura, Burundi  
Tel: +25722221815 or +25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbnburundi.org  
Website: www.bbnburundi.org