G/TBT/N/DOM/218  
16 October 2013  
(13-5688)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:  DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Instituto Dominicano para la Calidad , INDOCAL (Dominican Institute for Quality) 
Calle Oloff Palme esquina Av. Núñez de Cáceres Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: 1 809 686-2205 
Fax: 1 809 688-3843 
Email: indocal@indocal.gob.do  
Website: http://www.indocal.gob.do  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
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 where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 97.195/39.060 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
NORDOM 97:5-002, Referencial nacional de joyería de ámbar y larimar 
(Dominican Standard (NORDOM) No. 97:5-002: National reference document for amber and larimar jewellery) (20 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content:  The notified Standard covers the following: Definitions; 
Production process; Raw material preparation; Casting; Assembly; Rolling; Drawing; 
and Quality determinants. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The notified Standard lays down the requirements governing the production 
of crafts, handicrafts and hand-made and design products made using artisanal techniques and of hand-made and other design products the main raw material of which 
is amber, larimar, precious metals, semi-precious metals or natural fibres, which may be 
classified as jewellery, at least 30% of which (in terms of surface area) is amber or larimar, and which have been produced using artisanal technology. 
8. Relevant documents:  
- Acuerdo para el Fomento de la Producción y la Competitividad del Subsector Fiquero 
(Agreement to promote the production an d competitiveness of the fique plant 
subsector), MADR, IICA & CORPOICA (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture and Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation), 140 pages, Bogotá D.C., 2004; G/TBT/N/DOM/218 
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  - Guía Ambiental del Subsector Fiquero (Environmental Guide for the fique plant 
subsector),  Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial, Ministerio de 
Agricultura y Cadena del Fique (Ministry of the Environment, Housing and Territorial 
Development and Ministry of Agriculture and the Fique Plant Production Chain), 
Second Edition, April 2006.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined. 
To be determined. 
10. Final date for comments:  15 December 2013 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body: 
Instituto Dominicano para la Calidad, INDOCAL 
Calle Oloff Palme esquina Av. Núñez de Cáceres 
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: 1 809 686-2205 
Fax: 1 809 688-3843 
Email: indocal@indocal.gob.do  
Website: http://www.indocal.gob.do