G/TBT/N/SLV/216/Add.1  
7 February  2024 
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 6  February  2024, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of El Salvador . 
 
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Title: Salvadoran Technical Regulation RTS 29.02.01:21, Electrical products. Luminaires. Energy 
efficiency specifications.  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:  
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[ ] Notified measure published - date:  
[ ] Notified measure enters into force - date:  
[ ] Text of final measure available from1:  
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:  
[X] Content or scope of notified measure changed and text available from1:  
The content of the Salvadoran Technical Regulation has been updated  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/TBT/SLV/modificat ion/24_01200_00_
s.pdf 
New deadline for comments (if applicable):  
[ ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[ ] Other:  
 
Description : On 27  October  2021, the Government of the Republic of El Salvador notified, in 
document G/TBT/N/SLV/216, draft Salvadoran Technical Regulation RTS 29.02.01:21, Electrical 
products. Luminaires. Energy efficiency specifications, with the aim of "lay[ing] down minimum 
energy performance ranges as well as the testing, labelling and conformity assessment procedures 
that must be complied with by the lamps and luminaires described in this Regulation, which are 
manufactured, imported definitively, used and marketed within the territory of El Salvador".  
The purpose of this Addendum is to notify WTO  Members that the content of the Salvadoran 
Technical Regulatio n has been updated, and that the measure was issued through 
Agreement  No. 168/2023 of the Directorate -General of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mining (DGEHM), 
 
1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a PDF attachment, or other 
information on where the text of the final measure/change to the measure/interpretative guidance can be 
obtained.  G/TBT/N/SLV/216/Add.1  
 
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  published in Official Journal  No. 232, Volume  No. 441, of 11  December  2023. In addition, pursuant 
to Article 10 of the Agreement, the amendments entered into force on 11 December 2023.  
The full text is available from:  
Ministerio de Economía  (Ministry of Economic Affairs)  
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales  (Directorate for the Administratio n of Trade 
Agreements)  
Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe Plan Maestro San Salvador, El Salvador.  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.sv  
Tel.: (+503) 2590 5788; Fax: (+503) 2590  5789 
Email: datco@economia.gob.sv  
Consejo Nacional de Calidad  (National Quality Council)  
Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica , OSARTEC (Salvadoran Technical Regulati on 
Agency)  
Boulevard San Bartolo y Calle Lempa, costado Norte del INCAF, Edificio CNC, Ilopango, San Salvador, 
El Salvador.  
Website: https://osartec.gob.sv/  
Tel.: (+503) 2590 5335; (+ 503) 2590 5338  
Email: consultasreglamento@osartec.gob.sv  
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