G/SPS/N/NIC/18/Add.1
7 October 2014 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: Spanish
 
  NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 6 October 2014, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Nicaragua. 
 
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 Nicaraguan Mandatory Technical Standard (NTON) No. 11 003 – 14: "Technical Health Standard on 
the importation and movement of aquatic organisms within national territory" 
On 11 December 2003, the Government of Nicaragua notified Law No. 291 "Basic Law on animal and plant health" (22 pages, in Spanish) in document G/SPS/N/NIC/18. This Law has been subject to certain amendments with regard to the delegation of authority and responsibilities.  
Law No. 862 "Establishing the Institute for Agricultural and Livestock Protection and Health (IPSA)" 
sets out the legal provisions governing the creation of this agency. IPSA is a decentralized body under, and with a hierarchical organizational structure linked to, the Office of the President of the 
Republic. It enjoys its own legal status, is endowed with functional, technical and administrative 
autonomy, possesses its own assets, is of unlimited duration, and has full capacity to acquire rights and contract obligations within its respective field of competence. It is the uninterrupted legal successor of the Directorate-General of Agricultural and Livestock Protection and Health 
(DGPSA), created pursuant to Law No. 291 "Basic la w on animal and plant health", as published in 
Official Journal La Gaceta  No. 136 of 22 July 1998.  
 
This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[ ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[X] Modification of content and/or scope of  previously notified draft regulation 
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation 
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication, or date of entry into force 
[ ] Other:   
Comment period:  (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified 
measure in terms of products and/or potent ially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, norm ally of at least 60 calendar days.  Under 
other circumstances, such as extension of or iginally announced final date for comments, 
the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable G/SPS/N/NIC/18/Add.1 
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle  comments:  [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body: 
National Notification Authority: 
Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Comercio 
Costado Este del Hotel Intercontinental Metrocentro Managua, Nicaragua 
Tel:  (+505) 2248-9300, Ext. 2276 or 2230 
E-mail:  imartinez@mific.gob.ni or nsolano@mific.gob.ni   
 
National Enquiry Point: 
Instituto de Protección y Sanidad Agropecuaria 
Managua, Nicaragua Tel.:  (+505) 2270-1089  
E-mail:  jorge.rodriguez@ipsa.gob.ni  
Text available from:  [X] National Notificati on Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail addre ss (if available) of other body: 
National Notification Authority: 
Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Comercio 
Costado Este del Hotel Intercontinental Metrocentro Managua, Nicaragua 
Tel.:  (+505) 2248-9300, Ext. 2276 or 2230 
E-mail:  imartinez@mific.gob.ni or nsolano@mific.gob.ni   
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