. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/SEN/6 
27 August 2009 
 (09-4037) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   French 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   SENEGAL
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   Association Sénégalaise de Normalisation/Ministère des Mines, de 
l'Industrie et des PME  (Senegalese Standardization Association/Ministry of Mines, 
Industry, and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises) Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, e-mail 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 [ ], 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):   Liquid fuels - 
specifications for diesel oil 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Projet de norme 
sénégalais PNS09-048:  Combustibles liquides - spécifications du gas oil (Draft Senegalese 
Standard PNS09-048:  Liquid fuels - Specifica tions for diesel oil) (7 pages, in French). 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Standard establishes the specifications for the 
following characteristics of diesel oil: 
- Petroleum products - Determinati on of distillation characteristics; 
- Crude petroleum and liquid petroleum products - Determination of density; 
- Petroleum products - Determination of colour; - Petroleum products and bitumino us materials - Determination of  water - Distillation method; 
- Crude petroleum and fuel oils - Determ ination of sediment - Extraction method; 
- Petroleum oils - Determination of pour point; 
- Petroleum products - Determination of ash; 
- Petroleum products - Transparent and opaque  liquids - Determination of kinematic 
viscosity and calculation of dynamic viscosity; - Petroleum products and lubricants - Determina tion of flash point - Pensky-Martens closed 
cup method; 
- Petroleum products and lubricants - Neut ralization number - Colour-indicator titration 
method (total acidity); - Petroleum products - Determination of sul phur content - X-Ray spectrographic method; 
- Corrosiveness to copper; - Cloud point; - Conradson carbon; 
- Petroleum products - Distillate fuels - Calculation of cetane index. G/TBT/N/SEN/6 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and the environm ent, and the principle of the defence of 
national sovereignty from an  economic point of view. 
8. Relevant documents:   Draft Senegalese Standard (see point 5 above) 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   June 2009 
September 2009 
10. Final date for comments:   3 May 2009 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available of the other body: 
Association Sénégalaise de Normalisation (ASN) 
21, lotissement Front de Terre x Bourguiba BP 4037 
Dakar, Sénégal 
Tel.: 221 33 827 6401 Fax: 221 33 827 6412 E-mail: asnor@sentoo.sn