G/TBT/N/PAN/68
30 October 2014
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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:   PANAMA 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial , Ministerio 
de Comercio e Industrias (Directorate-General for Standards and Industrial Technology, 
Ministry of Trade and Industry) (responsible for processing notifications)   
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority design ated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:    
Directorate-General for Standards and Industrial Technology 
Vía Ricardo J. Alfaro, Edificio Plaza Edison, 3er Piso, Panamá Panamá 
Tel.:  (+507) 560-0716 and 560-0600, Ext. 2389 
Fax:  (+507) 560-0721 Email:  dgnti@mici.gob.pa / mortega@mici.gob.pa  
Website:  http://www.mici.gob.pa 
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 provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.120.20 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Reglamento 
Técnico DGNTI COPANIT 23-395-99 - Agua. Agua Potable. Definiciones y Requisitos 
Generales (Directorate-General for Standards and Industrial Technology-Panamanian 
Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards (DGNTI-COPANIT) Technical Regulation No. 23-395-99: Water. Drinking water. Definitions and general requirements) 
(13 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation covers the following: 
Purpose and scope; Definitions; Requirements; Sampling; Tests; and Appendix. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:   To establish the physical, chemical, biological and radiological requirements 
to be met by drinking water. 
8. Relevant documents:    
• Reglamento Técnico DGNTI-COPANIT 21-393-99: Calidad de Agua. Toma de muestra  
(Directorate-General for Standards and Industrial Technology-Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards (DGNTI-COPANIT) Technical 
Regulation No. 21-393-99: Water quality. Sampling); 
• Reglamento Técnico DGNTI-COPANIT 22-394-99: Calidad de Agua. Toma de muestra 
de análisis biológico  (Directorate-General for Standards and Industrial Technology-
Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards (DGNTI-COPANIT) G/TBT/N/PAN/68 
 
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  Technical Regulation No. 22-394-99: Water quality. Sampling for biological analysis). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:  Immediately  Immediately  
10. Final date for comments:   Immediately  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses,  if available, of other body:   
Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial 
Ave. Ricardo J. Alfaro y calle El Paical, Edif. Plaza Edison, 3er Piso Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá 
Tel.: (+507) 560-0716 
Fax: (+507) 560-0721 Email: dgnti@mici.gob.pa  Website: http://www.mici.gob.pa