G/TBT/N/SLV/168  
20 August 2013  
(13-4425)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EL SALVADOR 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica, OSARTEC 
(Salvadorian Technical Regulation Agency) 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, e-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Ministerio de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy) 
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales (Directorate of Trade Treaty Administration) 
Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe 
Plan Maestro, San Salvador, El Salvador Tel.: (+503) 2590-5788 
Fax: (+503) 2590-5789 
E-mail: datco@minec.gob.sv ; jmilla@minec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.minec.gob.sv  
3. Notified under Arti cle 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN wher e applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
Residential buildings: International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 91.040.30 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
RTS 91.01.01:13, Vivienda Social de un Nivel (Mampostería de Bloque de Concreto y 
Mampostería Confinada) (Salvadorian Technical Regulation (RTS) No. 91.01.01:13: 
Single-storey social housing (concrete block masonry and confined masonry)) (35 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:  The notified Technical Regulation establishes the basic 
structural configuration criteria, the architectural requirements and the construction 
and monitoring processes for social housing in the Republic of El Salvador. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer protection. Protection of human health and safety. G/TBT/N/SLV/168 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
 ASTM A370-12a: Standard Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing 
of Steel Products; 
 ASTM A615-12: Standard Specification for Deformed and Plain Carbon-Steel Bars 
for Concrete Reinforcement; 
 ASTM C31-12: Standard Practice for Making  and Curing Concrete Test Specimens 
in the Field; 
 ASTM C39-12a: Standard Test Method for Compressive Strength of Cylindrical 
Concrete Specimens; 
 ASTM C67-12: Standard Test Methods for Sampling and Testing Brick 
and Structural Clay Tile; 
 ASTM C90-12: Standard Specification for Load-bearing Concrete Masonry Units; 
 ASTM C91/C91M-12: Standard Specification for Masonry Cement; 
 ASTM C109-12: Standard Test Method for Compressive Strength 
of Hydraulic-Cement Mortars (Using 2 inch or [50 mm] Cube Specimens); 
 ASTM C140-13: Standard Test Methods for Sampling and Testing Concrete Masonry 
Units and Related Units; 
 ASTM C143/C143M-12: Standard Test Method for Slump 
of Hydraulic-Cement Concrete; 
 ASTM C144-11: Standard Specification for Aggregate for Masonry Mortar; 
 ASTM C172-10: Standard Practice for Sampling Freshly Mixed Concrete; 
 ASTM C270-12a: Standard Specification for Mortar for Unit Masonry; 
 ASTM C404-11: Standard Specification for Aggregates for Masonry Grout; 
 ASTM C1019-13: Standard Test Method for Sampling and Testing Grout; 
 ASTM C1157-11: Standard Performance Specification for Hydraulic Cement; 
 ASTM C1314-12: Standard Test Method for Compressive Strength 
of Masonry Prisms; 
 ASTM D558-11: Standard Test Methods for Moisture-Density (Unit Weight) 
Relations of Soil-Cement Mixtures; 
 ASTM D1557-12: Standard Test Methods for Laboratory Compaction Characteristics 
of Soil Using Modified Effort (56,000 ft-lbf/ft3 (2,700 kN-m/m3)); 
 ASTM E519-10: Standard Test Method for Diagonal Tension (Shear) 
in Masonry Assemblages.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined. 
To be determined. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days as from the date of notification. G/TBT/N/SLV/168 
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  11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body: 
Ministerio de Economía 
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe Plan Maestro, San Salvador, El Salvador 
Tel.: (+503) 2590-5788 
Fax: (+503) 2590-5789 E-mail: datco@minec.gob.sv ; jmilla@minec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.minec.gob.sv  
 
Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica (OSARTEC) 
1ª Calle Poniente y Final 41 Av. Norte, N° 18, Colonia Flor Blanca 
San Salvador, El Salvador Tel.: (+503) 2590-5323; (+503) 2590-5331; (+503) 2590-5335 E-mail: consultasreglamento@osartec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.osartec.gob.sv