G/TBT/N/PAN/74
4 November 2014
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: Spanish 
 
NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   PANAMA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Dirección de Normas y Tecnología Industrial (Directorate for 
Standards and Industrial Technology) (responsible for processing notifications) 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority design ated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   As above 
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 provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
International Classification fo r Standards (ICS) code 67.180 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Reglamento 
técnico DGNTI COPANIT N 40-312-99. Tecnología de los alimentos. Azúcar y sus derivados. Azúcar turbinado. Requisitos (Directorate-General for Standards and 
Industrial Technology-Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards 
(DGNTI-COPANIT) Technical Regulation No. 40-312-99: Food technology. Sugar and sugar products. Turbinado sugar. Requirements) (8 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation covers the following: 
Purpose; Definition; Designation; General characteristics; Requirements; Microbiological 
requirements; Sampling; Packaging and labelling; and Testing. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:   To establish the requirements to be met by sugar known in commercial 
parlance as "turbinado sugar". G/TBT/N/PAN/74 
 
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  8. Relevant documents:    
• Norma COPANIT 52  (Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards 
(COPANIT) Standard No. 52); 
• Reglamento Técnico DGNTI COPANIT 3-421  (Directorate-General for Standards and 
Industrial Technology-Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards (DGNTI-COPANIT) Technical Regulation No. 3-421); 
• Anteproyecto COPANIT  26-4-009 (Panamanian Commission for Industrial and 
Technical Standards (COPANIT) Preliminary Draft Technical Regulation No. 26-4-009);  
• Norma COPANIT 207  (Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards 
(COPANIT) Standard No. 207); 
• Ley 29 de la CLICAC  (Commission for Free Competition and Consumer Affairs 
(CLICAC) Law No. 29). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:  Adopted in March 2000 Immediately   
10. Final date for comments:   -  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses,  if available, of other body:   
Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial 
Ave. Ricardo J. Alfaro y calle El Paical, Edif. Plaza Edison, 3er Piso 
Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá Tel.: (+507) 560-0716 Fax: (+507) 560-0721 
Email: dgnti@mici.gob.pa