. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/DOM/185 
22 October 2012 
 (12-5743) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad , DIGENOR (Directorate-General of 
Standards and Quality Systems) Edificio de Oficinas Gubernamentale s "Juan Pablo Duarte", piso 11 
Avenida México esquina Leopoldo Navarro 
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: (+1) 809 686-2205 Fax: (+1) 809 688-3843 E-mail: digenor@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:   
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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.120.10 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
NORDOM 67:19-101, Higiene de las ca rnes.  Fiambre.  Especificaciones (Dominican 
Standard No. 67:19-101:  Meat hygiene.  Cold meats.  Specifications) (18 pages, 
in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   The notified Standard covers the following:  Definitions;  
Materials;  Production;  Requirements;  Classification and description;  Organoleptic specifications;  Microbiological requirements;  Hygiene;  Sampling;  Labelling;  and 
Packing and packaging. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish the characteristics of and health requirements to be met by cold meats.  G/TBT/N/DOM/185 
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  8. Relevant documents: 
1. CODEX STAN 89-1981:  Codex Standard for Luncheon Meat; 2. CODEX STAN 96-1981:  Codex Standard for Cooked Cured Ham; 
3. NCR 105:1991, Norma de Calidad para el Jamón Curado Cocido  (Costa Rican 
Standard No. 105:1991:  Quality standard for cooked cured ham); 
4. Codex Alimentarius, Volume 10,  Meat and Meat Products, 1994; 
5. COVENIN 3124:2001,  Norma Venezolana para Fiambre (Venezuelan Commission 
for Industrial Standards (COVENIN), Sta ndard No. 3124:  2001 on cold meats); 
6. Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-158-SCFI-2003, Jamón.  Denominación y 
clasificación comercial, especificaciones fisicoquímicas, microbiológicas, 
organolépticas, información comercial y métodos de pruebas  (Mexican Official 
Standard NOM-158-SCFI-2003:  Ham.  Trade description and classification, physico-chemical, microbiological and organoleptic specifications, commercial 
information and test methods); 
7. NORDOM 67, Carnes y productos carnic os.  Mortadela.  Especificaciones  
(Dominican Standard No. 67:  Meat and m eat products.  Mortadella.  Specifications); 
8. Guía para el etiquetado de embutidos  (Sausage labelling guide), Costa Rica, 
February 2010.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  } To be determined. 
10. Final date for comments:   3 December 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body: 
Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad (DIGENOR) 
Edificio de Oficinas Gubernamentale s "Juan Pablo Duarte", piso 11 
Avenida México esquina Leopoldo Navarro 
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana 
Tel.: (+1) 809 686-2205 Fax: (+1) 809 688-3843 E-mail: cendocdigenor@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do