G/TBT/N/SLV/183  
25 Aug ust 2016  
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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 : 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 Salva dor 
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) : 67.040  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Reglamento 
Técnico C entroamericano RTCA 67.06.74:16 Productos Agropecuarios Orgánicos . 
Requisitos para la Producción, el Procesamiento, la Comercialización, la Certificación y el 
Etiquetado  (Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) 67.06.74:16 : Organic 
agricultural produc ts. Requirements governing production, processing, marketing, 
certification and labelling) (66 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Regulation establishes the provisions and 
procedures governing the production, registration, certific ation, processing, labelling, 
storage, transport and marketing of organic agricultural products . It applies to the 
following products that carry or should carry a descriptive label relating to organic 
production methods.  
A product is considered to carry in formation concerning organic production methods when 
the label or property claims, including advertising material and commercial documents, 
describe the product or its ingredients using the terms "organic", "biological" or 
"ecological" or other similar int ernationally recognised vocabulary, including abbreviated 
forms, which suggest to the buyer that the product or its ingredients have been obtained 
via organic production methods in the country in which they have been put on the market.  
The Regulation must be applied by all natural or legal persons engaged in the production, 
processing, labelling, storage, transport and marketing of certified organic agricultural 
products . It is also binding upon public and private bodies engaged in the registration, 
control  and/or certification of such production.  G/TBT/N/SLV/183  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Plant health, animal health and consumer information.  
8. Relevant documents:  
a. CAC/GL 32 -1999: Guidelines for the Production, Pr ocessing, Labelling and Marketing 
of Organically Produced Foods.  
b. Commission Regulation (EC) No. 889/2008 of 5 September 2 008 laying down 
detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No. 834/2007 on 
organic  production and labelling of or ganic products with regard to organic 
production, labelling and control.  
c. Council Regulation (EC) No. 834/2007 of 2 8 June 2 007 on organic production and 
labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No. 2092/91.  
d. USDA -AMS National Organic Prog ram, USDA Organic Standards 7 CFR Part 205, 
USDA Organic Regulations (Spanish version, updated 3 December 2 013, reviewed 
July 2 014).  
e. International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures, ISPM No. 5, Glossary of 
Phytosanitary Terms, Secretariat of the Interna tional Plant Protection Convention 
(IPPC) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2015.  
f. Reglamento para la Agricultura Orgánica , Acuerdo No. 146-2003 (Regulation on 
Organic Farming, Decision No. 146-2003), of 7 March 2 003 of the Ministry of 
Agriculture and Livestock of the Government of the Republic of Honduras, published 
in Honduran Official Journal La Gaceta  No. 30,351 of Friday 2 6 March 2 004. 
g. Reglamento de Agricultura Orgánica  (Regulation on Organic Farming) , Ministry of 
Agricu lture and Livestock , Executive Decree No. 29782 of 2 1 August 2 001, Official 
Journal La Gaceta , San José, Costa Rica.  
h. Manual Técnico de Agricultura Orgánica , MTAO (Technical manual on organic 
farming), 2004 version , Eddy Manolo De la Cruz Berganza.  
i. Reglamen to Técnico Salvadoreño RTS  65.01.01:13 Para la Producción, 
Procesamiento, Comercialización y C ertificación de Productos Orgánicos  (Salvadorian 
Technical Regulation 65.01.01:13 on the production, processing, marketing and 
certification of organic products),  published in the Official Journal, Volume No. 401, 
San Salvador, 6 December 2 013, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Department 
of Agriculture and Livestock, Decision No. 485, Santa Tecla, 1 3 November 2 013. 
j. NTON 11 041 - 13 Norma Técnica Obligatoria N icaragüense . Producción, 
Procesamiento y Etiquetado de Productos Agropecuarios Orgánicos  (Nicaraguan 
Mandatory Technical Standar d (NTON) 11 041 - 13: Production, processing and 
labelling of organic agricultural products).  
k. Ley 8 de 24 de enero de 2002, "Que  establece la Regulaciones Nacionales para el 
Desarrollo de Actividades Agropecuarias Orgánicas"  (Law No. 8 of 2 4 January 2 002 
establishing domestic regulations for the development of organic farming activities).  
l. Executive Decree No. 121 of Tuesday, 8 Sept ember 2 015. 
m. Ministerial Resolution No. D AL-067-ADM-05 of 9 December 2 005. 
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : To be determined.  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from the date of notification.  G/TBT/N/SLV/183  
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  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 Guadalup e, Plan Maestro, San Salvador, El Salvador  
Tel.: (+503) 2590 5788  
Fax: (+503) 2590 5789  
Email: datco@minec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.minec.gob.sv/  
Organismo Salvadoreño de Re glamentación Técnica (OSARTEC)  
1ª Calle Poniente y Final 41 Av . Norte, N° 18, Colonia Flor Blanca  
San Salvador, El Salvador  
Tel.: (+503) 2590 5335 ; (+503) 2590 5338  
Email: consultasreglamento@osartec. gob.sv  
Website: http://www.osartec.gob.sv/