G/TBT/N/UGA/928  
 
10 October 2018  
(18-6271) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member: UGANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Uganda National Bureau of Standards.  
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 indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2  [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X], 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): Compound 
microbial fertilizer; Fertilisers (HS 31). Fertilizers (ICS 65.080).  
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document: DUS 2081, 
Compound microbial fertilizer - Specification, First edition (20 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements and methods 
of sampling and test for compound m icrobial fertilizers.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of animal or plant life or health; Protection of the 
environment; Quality requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. US ISO 8157, Fertilizers and soil conditioners - Vocabulary  
2. US ISO 7409 Fertilizers - Marking - Presentation and declarations  
3. US ISO 11261, Soil quality - Determination of total nitrogen - Modified Kjeldahl 
method  
4. US ISO 6598, Fertilizers - Determination of phosphorus content - Quinoline 
phosphomolybdate gravimetric method  
5. US ISO 17319, Fertilizers and soil conditioners -- Determination of water -soluble 
potassium content -- Potassium tetraphenylborate gravimetric method.  
6. US ISO 11465, Soil quality - Determination of dry matter and water content on a 
mass basis - Gravimetric method  
7. US ISO 10390, Soil quality - Determination of pH  
8. US ISO 9308 -2, Water quality - Enumeration of Escherichia coli and coliform 
bacteria - Part 2: Most Probable Number method (2nd Edition)  
9. US ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the G/TBT/N/UGA/928  
 
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  detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella - Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
10. US ISO/TS 21872 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal 
method for the detection of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio spp. - Part 1: 
Detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio cholera  
11. DUS ISO 21567 Microbiology  of food and animal feeding stuffs -- Horizontal 
method for the detection of Shigella spp.  
12. US ISO 17318, Fertilizers and soil conditioners - Determination of arsenic, 
cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury contents  
13. US ISO 11047, Soil quality - Determination o f cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, 
lead, manganese, nickel and zinc in aqua regia extracts of soil - Flame and 
electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometric methods  
14. Agricultural Industry Standard of the People’s Republic of China - Compound 
microbial fer tilizers  
15. US 1576:2015 Biofertilizer - Specification  
9. Proposed date of adoption: December 2018  
Proposed date of entry into force: Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives.  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from 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:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/UGA/18_5295_00_e.pdf