G/TBT/N/SLV/181
27 January 2015
(15-0568)  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 design ated 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 
Tel.:  (503) 2590-5788   Fax:  (503) 2590-5789 
Email:  datco@minec.gob.sv  / milla@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 provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.120.30 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   RTS 
67.01.01:13, Productos pesqueros. Buenas practicas de manufactura. Criterios 
microbiológicos aplicables a productos de la pesca y acuicultura (Salvadorian Technical 
Regulation (RTS) No. 67.01.01:13: Fishery products. Good Manufacturing Practices. 
Microbiological criteria for fishery and aquaculture products) (3 pages, in Spanish).    
6. Description of content:   The notified Salvadorian Technical Regulation seeks to ensure 
compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices and the microbiological criteria for fishery 
and aquaculture products for domestic consumption.    
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:   Food safety   
8. Relevant documents:     
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs 
(current edition); 
• RTCA, Alimentos. Criterios Microbiológicos para la Inocuidad de Alimentos  (Central 
American Technical Regulation on Food products. Microbiological criteria for food 
safety) (current edition); 
• Codex Alimentarius Commission / Recommended International Code of Practice 
CAC/RCP 52-2003: Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products; 
• Reglamento para la aplicación de norm as de higiene y Buenas Prácticas de G/TBT/N/SLV/181 
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  Manufactura en los Productos Pesqueros, así como del Sistema de Análisis de Peligros 
y Puntos Críticos de Control en los establecimientos de procesamiento, oficializado 
por el Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (Decreto Ejecutivo número 36 de fecha 
siete de mayo de dos mil uno, Diario Oficial: 84, Tomo: 351, Publicado el cinco de junio de dos mil uno (Regulation governing the implementation of hygiene standards, 
Good Manufacturing Practices for fishery products and the Hazard Analysis and 
Critical Control Point (HACCP) system, adopted pursuant to Ministry of Agriculture 
and Livestock Executive Decree No. 36 of 7 May 2001, published in Official Journal No. 84, Vol. 351, of 5 June 2001);  
• Procedimiento interno del Ministerio de agricultura y ganadería, toma de muestra en 
plantas procesadoras de productos pesqueros, IT_IPA 05 Inocuidad de alimentos, inocuidad de productos de origen animal, versión vigente de fecha veintidós de 
octubre de dos mil ocho (Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock internal procedure: 
Sampling in fishery product processing pl ants, IT_IPA 05, Food safety. Safety of 
products of animal origin, current version dated 22 October 2008). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification 
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 Guadalupe 
Plan Maestro, San Salvador, El Salvador Tel.: (503) 2590-5788 Fax: (503) 2590-5789 
Email: datco@minec.gob.sv  / jmilla@minec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.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  
Tel.: (503) 2590-5323 
 (503) 2590-5335 Email: consultasreglamento@osartec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.osartec.gob.sv