G/TBT/N/SLV/176  
27 May 2014  
(14-3148)  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 governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica , OSARTEC 
(Salvadorian Technical Regulation Agency) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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 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 Salvador Website: http://www.minec.gob.sv/  
Tel.: (+503) 2 590-5788 
Fax: (+503) 2 590-5789 Email: datco@minec.gob.sv  / jmilla@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): 13.060.20 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document: RTS 
13.03.01:14 Manejo de los Desechos Bioinfecciosos  (Salvadorian Technical Standard 
(RTS) 13.03.01:14: Bio-infectious waste management) (16 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content: The notified text establishes the sanitary requirements 
governing bio-infectious waste management. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection for persons who generate or store, or who are involved in the 
collection, transportation, treatment or disposal of bio-infectious waste. 
8. Relevant documents:  
 Reglamento Especial de Protección y Seguridad Radiológica  (Special regulations on 
radiological protection and safety), Official Journal, Volume No. 354, Monday 18 
March 2002. Ministry of Public Health; 
 Manual para personal médico y de enfermería, gestión y manejo de desechos 
sólidos hospitalarios, Programa regional de desechos sólidos hospitalarios. 
Convenio ALA 91/93, 1998 (Handbook for doctors and nurses on solid hospital 
waste management, Regional programme on solid hospital waste. ALA Agreement 91/93, 1998);  
 Manual para técnicos e inspectores de saneamiento, gestión y manejo de desechos G/TBT/N/SLV/176 
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  sólidos hospitalarios. Programa regional de desechos sólidos hospitalarios. 
Convenio ALA 91/93, 1998  (Handbook for health technicians and inspectors on 
solid hospital waste management, Regional programme on solid hospital waste. 
ALA Agreement 91/93, 1998); 
 Guía de capacitación. Programa regional de desechos sólidos hospitalarios. 
Convenio ALA 91/93, 1998  (Training guide. Regional programme on solid hopital 
waste. ALA Agreement 91/93, 1998); 
 Derecho Ambiental, líneas directrices y principios. Manejo ambiental racional de 
desechos peligrosos  (Environmental law: guidelines and principles. Rational 
environmental management of hazardous waste); 
 London Guidelines for the Exchange of Information on Chemicals in International 
Trade, as amended in 1989; 
 Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous 
Wastes and their Disposal; 
 CEPIS: Guía para la desinfección mexicana. Norma para el manejo de residuos 
biológicos infecciosos  (CEPIS: Guide to disinfection in Mexico. Standard on 
infectious biological waste management); 
 Gaceta Oficial de la República de Venezuela: Norma para el control de la 
generación de desechos peligrosos (Official Journal of the Republic of Venezuela: 
Standard to control the generation of hazardous waste); 
 Propuesta de Norma de Desechos Sólidos Hospitalarios, Programa ALA 91/93, 1996  
(Draft standard on solid hospital waste, ALA Programme 91/93, 1996), Oficina 
Nacional de El Salvador 
 Reglamento especial en materia de sustancias, residuos y desechos peligrosos 
(Special regulation on hazardous substances, residues and waste), Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, El Salvador, January 1999; and 
 Ley del Medio Ambiente  (Law on the Environment), El Salvador, May 1998. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined 
To be determined 
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 addresse s, 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) 2 590-5788; 
Fax: (+503) 2 590-5789 Email: datco@minec.gob.sv  / jmilla@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) 2 590-5323; (+503) 2 590-5331; (+503) 2 590-5335 
Email: consultasreglamento@osartec.gob.sv