G/TBT/N/SLV/185  
21 September 2016  
(16-5024) 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 : EL SALVADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglame ntación Técnica , OSARTEC 
(Salvadorian Technical Regulation Agency)  
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 in dicated if different from above:  
Ministerio de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy)  
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales  (Directorate of Trade Treaty 
Administration)  
Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe, Plan Maestro, San Salvador  
El Salvad or 
Tel.: (503) 2590 5788  
Fax: (503) 2590 5789  
Email: datco@minec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.minec.gob.sv/   
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) : 
ICS number : 75.060  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Reglamento 
Técnico Salvadoreño RTS 75.01.01:16 Hidrocarburos . Gas Natural . Especificaciones de 
Calidad  (Salvadorian Technical Regulation RTS 75.01.01:16 : Hydrocarbons . Natural gas . 
Quality specifications) (17 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notifie d Technical Regulation  establishes the physical and 
chemical specifications for natural gas passing through storage, pipeline transport, and 
distribution network systems in El Salvador,  with a view to ensuring the safety of human 
beings, the environment , and the installations used.  
Natural gas injected into pipeline transport and network distribution systems must meet 
the specifications necessary  to ensure the quality of th e product supplied to consumers and 
the protection of consumer  installations in gener al and installations used by  natural gas 
pipeline transporters and network distributors.  
The notified text  applies to natural gas delivered to  storage, pipeline transport, and 
distribution network systems, and at custody transfer points.  
It does not apply to natural gas produced in and flowing from wells and processing 
complexes close to wells.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Environmental protection, quality , and consumer information.  G/TBT/N/SLV/185  
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  8. Relevant doc uments:  
(a) ISO 13686 : Natural gas - Quality designation . 
(b) Mexican Official Standard NOM -001-SECRE -2010: Especificaciones del Gas Natural  
(Specifications for natural gas), 2010 . 
(c) Mexican Official Standard NOM -006-SECRE -1999: Odorización del Gas Natural  
(Adding o dour to natural gas), 2009 . 
(d) Venezuelan Standard COVENIN 3568 -2:2000 : Gas natural . Características mínimas 
de calidad Parte 2 : Gas de uso general para sistemas de transporte troncales de 
libre acceso  (Natural gas . Minimum quality requirements, Part 2 : Gas for general use 
for freely accessed mainline transport systems), 2000.  
(e) Normas Técnicas Aplicables (NTA) para el aseguramiento de la calidad del gas 
natural en sistemas de transporte y distribución  (Applicable technical standards for 
ensuring the quality of natural gas in transport and distribution systems), Official 
Journal of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela No. 38.771, 2007.  
(f) Nota Técnica No. 55: Composición del g as natural ; Regulaciones en la República 
Argentina  (Technical note No. 55: Composition of n atural gas ; Regulations in the 
Argentine Republic), March 2 001. 
(g) Comparació n de parámetros de calidad del gas n atural  (Comparison of natural gas 
quality parameters), ENEGAS, Bolivarian Government of Venezuela, 2007.  
(h) LNG Custody Transfer Handbook, Internatio nal Group of Liquefied Natural Gas 
Importers, third edition, 2011.  
(i) Ley de Gas Natural  (Natural Gas Law), Official Journal No. 115, Volume 379, El 
Salvador, 2008.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : To be dete rmined.  
10. Final date for comments : 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 Economía  
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales  
Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe, Plan Maestro, San Salvador, El Salvador  
Website : http://www.minec.gob.sv  
Tel.: (503) 2590 5788  
Fax: (503) 2590 5789  
Email: datco@minec.gob.sv  
Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica (OSARTEC)  
1ª Calle Poniente y Final 41 Av . Norte, N° 18, Colonia Flor Blanca  
San Salvador, El Salvador  
Website : http://www.osartec.gob.sv  
Tel.: (503) 2590 5323 ; (503) 2590 5331  
Email: consultasreglamento@osartec.gob.sv  
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