G/SPS/N/DOM/53  
6 August 2014  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible: Dirección General de Ganadería (DIG EGA), Ministerio de Agricultura  
(Directorate-General of Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS num bers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable): Livestock products 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners 
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document: Decreto No. 51-08 que crea el Comité Nacional Pecuario 
para el control y/o erradicación de enfermedades exóticas en animales domésticos  (Decree 
No. 51-08 establishing the National Livestock Committee for the control and/or eradication of exotic diseases in domestic animals) Language(s): Spanish Number of pages: 2 
http://www.cnmsf.gob.do/Portals/0/docs/Text o%20Legales/Decretos /Sanidad%20Animal/
Dec.%2051-08.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/sps/DOM/14_3520_00_s.pdf 
6. Description of content: Decree No. 51-2008 establishes the National Livestock 
Committee (CNP), which is responsible for drafting the regulations necessary for 
controlling and/or eradicating exotic domestic animal diseases that affect the Dominican 
Republic and for implementing the measures required to achieve the proposed objectives. 
7. Objective and rationale: [ ] food safety, [X] animal heal th, [ ] plant protection, [ ] 
protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  G/SPS/N/DOM/53 
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  8. Is there a relevant international st andard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text)  
[X] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  Chapter 1.4: Animal health surveillance 
http://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/eng/Hea lth_standards/tahc/2010/en_chapitre_s
urveillance_general.htm  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention ( e.g. ISPM No. ) 
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to  the relevant international standard? 
[X] Yes [ ] No  
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available: 
Document available in Spanish on the website of the Dominican Republic's National 
Committee for the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: http://www.cnmsf.gob.do/Portals/0/docs/Text o%20Legales/Decretos /Sanidad%20Animal/
Dec.%2051-08.pdf  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 4 February 2008 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 4 February 2008 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and email address (if 
available) of other body:  
Oficina de Tratados Comerciales Agrícolas (OTCA) Ministerio de Agricultura 
Secretaría Ejecutiva del Comité Nacional para la Aplicación de las Medidas Sanitarias y 
Fitosanitarias (CNMSF) Punto de Contacto/Servicio Nacional  de Información MSF ante la OMC 
Km 6 ½ Autopista Duarte, Urb. Jardines del Norte, CP 10602 
Santo Domingo, D.N., República Dominicana Tel.: (+809) 227 6188 
 (+809) 227 3164 
 (+809) 547 1575 
Fax: (+809) 540 5943 Email: rd.cnmsf.snni@gmail.com 
 info@cnmsf.gob.do 
Website: http://www.otcasea.gob.do/  
 http://www.cnmsf.gob.do/ G/SPS/N/DOM/53 
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  13. Texts available from: [X] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body: 
Oficina de Tratados Comerciales Agrícolas (OTCA) Ministerio de Agricultura 
Secretaría Ejecutiva del Comité Nacional para la Aplicación de las Medidas Sanitarias y Fitosanitarias (CNMSF) Punto de Contacto/Servicio Nacional  de Información MSF ante la OMC 
Km 6 ½ Autopista Duarte, Urb. Jardines del Norte, CP 10602 
Santo Domingo, D.N., República Dominicana Tel.: (+809) 227 6188 
 (+809) 227 3164 
 (+809) 547 1575 Fax: (+809) 540 5943 
Email: rd.cnmsf.snni@gmail.com 
 info@cnmsf.gob.do Website: http://www.otcasea.gob.do/  
 http://www.cnmsf.gob.do/