G/TBT/N/ NIC/14 7 
29 August 2016  
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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:  NICARAGUA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Instituto de Protección y Sanidad  Agropecuaria , IPSA (Institute for Agricultural and 
Livestock Protection and Health ) 
Managua, Nicaragua  
Tel.:  (+505) 2270 -1089 
Email:  jorge.rodriguez@ipsa.gob.ni   
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:   
Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Comercio  (Ministry of Development, Indu stry and Trade)  
Km 6 Carretera a Masaya  
Managua , Nicaragua  
Tel.: (+505)  2248-9300, Ext. 1314 or  1315 
Email:   notificacion@mific.gob.ni ; imartinez@mific.gob.ni ; normalizacion@mific.gob.ni   
Website: http://www.mific.gob.ni/en -us/snc/snn/ntcpub/ntoncpub.aspx  
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  67.040  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Reglamento 
Técnico Centroamericano NTON 11 049 – 16/RTCA 67.06.74:16 , Productos Agropecuarios 
Orgánicos. Requisitos para la Producción, el Procesamiento, la Comercialización, la 
Certificación y el Etiquetado  (Nicaraguan Mandatory Technical Standard (NTON) No. 11 049 
- 16/Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 67.06.74:16: Organic agricultural 
products. Production, processing, marketing, certification and labelling requirements ) 
(66 pages, in Spanish)   
6. Description of content:  The notified Technical Regulation establishes the provisions and 
procedures governing the production, registration, certification, processing, labelling, 
storage, transport and marketing of organic agricultural  products. It applies to the following 
products that carry or should carry a descriptive label relating to organic production 
methods.  
A product is considered to carry information concerning organic production methods when 
the label or property claims, inc luding advertising material and commercial documents, 
describe the product or its ingredients using the terms "organic", "biological" or "ecological" 
or other similar internationally recognized vocabulary, including abbreviated forms, which 
suggest to the buyer that the product or its ingredients have been obtained using organic 
production methods in the country in which they have been put on the market.   G/TBT/N/NIC/147 
 
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  This Technical Regulation is binding upon all natural and legal persons engaged in the 
production, pro cessing, labelling, storage, transport and marketing of certified organic 
agricultural products as well as upon the public and private bodies engaged in the 
registration, control and/or certification of such products.    
7. Objective and rationale, includi ng the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Plant health, animal health and consumer information  
8. Relevant documents:  - 
9. Proposed date of adoption: To be determin ed 
Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined  
10. Final date for commen ts: 60 days from the date of 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:   
Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Comercio   
Km 6 Carretera  a Masaya  
Managua, Nicaragua  
Tel.:  (+505) 2248 -9300, Ext. 1314 or 1315 
Email:   imartinez@mific.gob.ni ; notificacion@mific.gob.ni ; normalizacion@mific.gob.ni  
Website: http://www.mific.gob.ni/en -us/snc/snn/ntcpub/ntoncpub.aspx