. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/HND/59 
9 June 2009 
 (09-2775) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  HONDURAS
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Secretaría de Industria y Comercio , SIC (Ministry of Industry and 
Trade) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Website 
addresses, if available) of agency or au thority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:  
Dirección General de Integraci ón Económica y Política Comercial  (Directorate-General of 
Economic Integration and Trade Policy) Boulevard José Cecilio del Valle Edificio San José, 4to piso 
Tegucigalpa 
Fax: +(504) 235-3082 / 235-5047 E-mail: pcomercial@sic.gob.hn Website: http://www.sic.gob.hn
 
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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 75.160.20 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   RTH 75.07.76:09, 
Biocombustibles.  Etanol carburant e hidratado.  Especificaciones (Honduran Technical 
Regulation (RTH) No. 75.07.76:09:  Biofuels.  Hydrated fuel ethanol.  Specifications) 
(5 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified Technical Regulation establishes the 
physico-chemical specifications that must be met by hydrated fuel ethanol to be used or 
marketed in Honduras as fuel for spark-ignition engines designed or adapted to this end. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Prevention of practices likely to mislead th e consumer and environmental protection. G/TBT/N/HND/59 
Page 2  
 
  8. Relevant documents:   The latest valid edition of either of the following American Society 
for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards s hould be used with regard to sampling: 
ASTM E-300:  Standard Practice for Sampling Industrial Chemicals ; 
ASTM D-4057:  Standard Practice for Manual Sampling of Petroleum and Petroleum 
Products . 
Samples can be obtained using the most appropriate of the procedures described in Practice 
D-4057 and Practice E-300.  Water displacement  (section on specific sampling procedures 
in Practice D-4057) must not, however, be used.  Fuel ethanol should preferably be sampled in glass containers.  If samples are collected in metal containers, soldered 
containers must not be used, despite their in clusion in the section on sampling apparatus in 
Practice E-300, given that soldering flux r esidues in the container may contaminate the 
sample. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon publication in the Official Journal 
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 E-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Dirección General de Protección al Consumidor 
Boulevard José Cecilio del Valle 
Edificio San José, 3er piso Tegucigalpa, República de Honduras Telefax: +(504) 235-5006 E-mail: normalizacion@sic.gob.hn 
Website: http://www.sic.gob.hn/