G/TBT/N/UGA/1100  
8 July 2019  
(19-4527) 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:  UGANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
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  [ ]:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Performance graded bitumen; Bitumen and asphalt, natural; b ituminous or oil shale and 
tar sands; asphaltites and asphaltic rocks (HS 2714); Road construction materials 
(ICS 93.080.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS 
DEAS 982-5:2019, Bitumen and Bituminous binders – Part 5: Performance graded 
bitumen - Specifications, First Edition. (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements and test 
methods for performance graded bitumen suitable for pavement construction.  
7. Objec tive and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the 
environment; Quality requireme nts; Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and 
facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ASTMD8, Terminology relating to materials for roads and pavements  
2. ASTMD92, Test Method for flash and fire points by cleveland open cup tester  
3. ASTMD95, Test Method for water in petroleum products and bituminous materials 
by distillation  
4. ASTMD140, Practice for sampling bituminous materials  
5. ASTMD2042, Test method for solubility of asphalt materials in trichloroethylene  
6. ASTMD2170, Test method for kinematic viscosity of asphalts (bitumens)  
7. ASTMD2171, Test method for viscosity of asphalts by vacuum capillary viscometer  
8. ASTMD2872, Test method for effect of heat and air on a moving film of asphalt 
(rolling thin -film oven test)  G/TBT/N/UGA/1100  
 
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  9. ASTMD3381, specification for viscosity -graded as phalt cement for use in 
pavement construction  
10. ASTMD4402, Test method for viscosity determination of asphalt at elevated 
temperatures using a rotational viscometer  
11. ASTMD5546, Test method for solubility of asphalt binders in toluene by centrifuge  
12. ASTMD6521, Practice for accelerated aging of asphalt binder using a Pressurized 
Aging Vessel (PAV)  
13. ASTMD6648, Test method for determining the flexural creep stiffness of asphalt 
binder using the Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR)  
14. ASTMD6723, Test method for determining the fracture properties of asphalt 
binder in Direct Tension (DT)  
15. ASTMD6816, Practice for determining low — Temperature performance grade 
(pg) of asphalt binders  
16. ASTMD7175, Test method for determining the rheological properties of asphalt 
binder using a dynamic  shear rheometer.  
17. ASTMD7553, Test method for solubility of asphalt materials in n -propyl bromide  
18. AASHTO R 29, Grading or verifying the performance grade of an asphalt binder  
19. AASHTO M 320, Standard specification for performance graded asphalt binder  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  March 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives  
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:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/UGA/19_3787_ 00_e.pdf