G/TBT/N/BDI/61  
10 October 2019  
(19-6546) 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:  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@bbn -burundi.org  
Web site: 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 unde r 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):  Storing. 
Warehousing (ICS 55.220)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 986: 2019 
Portable rigid plastic hermetic grain silo — Specification (28 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies the requirements, 
methods of sampling and test for portable rigid plastic hermetic silos used for storage of 
dry food commodities, derived products and seeds where controlled conditions of moisture 
and oxygen is a requirement  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment; Quality 
requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
• ISO 1663, Rigid cellular plastics — Determination of water vapour transmission 
properties  
• ISO 4591, Plastics -- Film and sheeting -- Determination of average thickness of 
a sample, and average thickness and yield of a roll, by gravimetric techniques 
(gravimetric thickness ) 
• ISO 2556, Plastics -- Determination of the gas transmission rate of films and thin 
sheets under atmospheric pressure -- Manometric method  
• ISO 1926, Rigid cellular plastics -- Determination of tensile properties  G/TBT/N/BDI/61  
 
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  • ISO 8256, Plastics — Determination of tensi le-impact strength  
• ISO 10193, General use light gauge metal containers -- Nominal filling volumes 
of round cylindrical and tapered containers of up to 40 000 m  
• ISO 1183 -1, Plastics -- Methods for determining the density of non -cellular 
plastics -- Part 1: Immersion method, liquid pyknometer method and titration 
method  
• KS 2874, Portable rigid plastic Hermetic grain silo —Specification  
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 [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@bbnb -urundi.org  
Web site: www.bbnburundi.org