G/SPS/N/DOM/62  
 
 
6 August 2015  
(15-4057)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: Spanish  
 
NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member:  DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  Dominican Republic 
2. Agency responsible:  Departamento de Inocuidad de los Alimentos, Ministerio de 
Agricultura  (Food Safety Department, Ministry of Agriculture) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable):  Residue monitoring programme for natural honey in the 
Dominican Republic 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document: Programa de Monitoreo de Residuos en Miel de Abeja 
en la República Dominicana  (Residue monitoring programme for natural honey in the 
Dominican Republic) 
Language(s):  Spanish  Number of pages: 5 
Text available at: 
http://cnmsf.gob.do/Portals/0/docs/Texto%20Legales/Resoluciones/Inocuidad%20Alime
ntaria/Resoluci%C3%B3n%2007-2015.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/DOM/15_3081_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content: The residue monitoring programme for natural honey will 
include the following elements:  
1. Surveillance and monitoring of the residues of pesticides, veterinary drugs and 
pollutants in natural honey (sampling plan);  
2. A sanitary inspection programme, and programmes to follow up on results in the 
event of non-conformity owing to the presence  of illegal residues of veterinary drugs, 
pesticides and pollutants in natural honey for domestic consumption and export, 
which are detected by the national control authorities or agencies of countries importing natural honey from the Dominican Republic.  
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant 
protection, [ ] protect humans from animal /plant pest or disease, [ ] protect 
territory from other damage from pests.    G/SPS/N/DOM/62 
 
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  8. Is there a relevant international st andard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial  n u m b e r  o f  C o d e x  
standard or related text)  
1. CAC/GL 33-1999: "Recommended methods of sampling for the determination 
of pesticide residues for compliance with MRLS"; 
2. CAC/GL 50-2004: "General guidelines on sampling";  
3. CAC/GL 71-2009: "Guidelines for the design and implementation of national 
regulatory food safety assurance programme associated with the use of veterinary drugs in food-producing animals"; 
4. CODEX STAN 234-1999: "Recommended methods of analysis and sampling". 
[ ] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)   
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  
[ ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [X] Yes   [ ] No  
 If no, describe, whenever possible,  how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  27 March 2015 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 5 October 2015 
Agency or authority designated to handle  comments:  [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:    
Oficina de Tratados Comerciales Agrícolas (OTCA) 
Ministerio de Agricultura Secretaría Ejecutiva del Comité Nacional para la Aplicación de las Medidas Sanitarias y 
Fitosanitarias (CNMSF) 
Punto de Contacto / Servicio Nacion al de Información MSF ante la OMC 
Km 6½ Autopista Duarte, Urb. Jardines del Norte, CP 10602 
Santo Domingo, D.N., República Dominicana 
Tel.:  (+809) 227-6188    (+809) 227-3164 
   (+809) 547-1575 
Fax:  (+809) 540-5943 E-mail: rd.cnmsf.snni@gmail.com  info@cnmsf.gob.do 
Website: http://www.otcasea.gob.do  
 http://www.cnmsf.gob.do  G/SPS/N/DOM/62 
 
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  13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
Oficina de Tratados Comerciales Agrícolas (OTCA)  
Ministerio de Agricultura 
Secretaría Ejecutiva del Comité Nacional para la Aplicación de las Medidas Sanitarias y Fitosanitarias (CNMSF) 
Punto de Contacto / Servicio Nacion al de Información MSF ante la OMC 
Km 6½ Autopista Duarte, Urb. Jardines del Norte, CP 10602 
Santo Domingo, D.N., República Dominicana 
Tel.: (+809) 227-6188 
   (+809) 227-3164    (+809) 547-1575 Fax:  (+809) 540-5943 
E-mail:  rd.cnmsf.snni@gmail.com 
 info@cnmsf.gob.do Website: http://www.otcasea.gob.do  
 http://www.cnmsf.gob.do