G/TBT/N/RWA/133  
 
18 April 2018  
(18-2377) 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: RWANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)  
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:   
Rwanda Standards Board  
KK 15 Rd, 49  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw   
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw  
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): Fertilizers 
(ICS 65.080).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: 
DARS  1490:2018, Organic fertilizer — Specification (25 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This African Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and 
test methods of organi c fertilizers.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of animal or plant life or health; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
 AOAC 2006.03, Arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, lead, molybdenum, nickel, and 
selenium in fertilizers — Microwave digestion and inductively coupled plasma -optical 
emission spectrometry  
 EN 13475, Liming materials — Determination of calcium content — Oxalate method  
 EN 16032, Fertilizers — Extraction and determi nation of elemental sulfur  
 EN 16197, Fertilizers — Determination of magnesium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
 EN 16198, Fertilizers — Determination of magnesium by complexometry  
 EN 16963, Fertilizers — Determination of boron, cobalt, copper, iron, mangan ese, 
molybdenum and zinc using ICP -AES 
 EN 16965, Fertilizers — Determination of cobalt, copper, iron, manganese and zinc G/TBT/N/RWA/133  
 
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  using flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS)  
 ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the detection of Salmonella spp.  
 ISO 6598, Fertilizers — Determination of phosphorus content — Quinoline 
phosphomolybdate gravimetric method  
 ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the detection and enumeration of presu mptive Escherichia coli — Most probable 
number technique  
 ISO 7409, Fertilizers — Marking — Presentation and declarations  
 ISO 8157, Fertilizers and soil conditioners — Vocabulary  
 ISO 8397, Solid fertilizers and soil conditioners — Test sieving  
 ISO 10390, So il quality — Determination of pH  
 ISO 10694, Soil quality — Determination of organic and total carbon after dry 
combustion (elementary analysis)  
 ISO 11047, Soil quality — Determination of cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, 
lead, manganese, nickel and zinc — Flame and electrothermal atomic absorption 
spectrometric methods  
 ISO 11261, Soil quality — Determination of total nitrogen — Modified Kjeldahl 
method  
 ISO 11265, Soil quality — Determination of the specific electrical conductivity  
 ISO 11465, Soil quality — Determination of dry matter and water content on a mass 
basis — Gravimetric method  
 ISO 14820 -1, Fertilizers and liming materials — Sampling and sample preparation — 
Part 1: Sampling  
 ISO 14820 -2, Fertilizers and liming materials — Sampling and sample prepa ration — 
Part 2: Sample preparation  
 ISO 15178, Soil quality — Determination of total sulfur by dry combustion  
 ISO 17318, Fertilizers and soil conditioners — Determination of arsenic, cadmium, 
chromium, lead and mercury contents  
 ISO 17184, Soil quality — Determination of carbon and nitrogen by near -infrared 
spectrometry (NIRS)  
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:   
KK 15 Rd, 49  
Toll Free: 3250  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw  
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
http://www .rsb.gov.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/files/pdf/new_stds/Public_Review_March_18
/DARS_1490 -2018__Organic_fertilizer_ -_Specification.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2018/TBT/RWA/18_2063_00_e.pdf