. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/JAM/24 
2 September 2011  
 (11-4308) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  JAMAICA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Bureau of Standards Jamaica 
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 :   
Regional and International Office 
6 Winchester Road Kingston 10 Jamaica W.I. Email:  info@bsj.org.jm   
Tel.:  +(876) 926-3140-5 Fax:  (876) 929-4736 
Website:  http://www.bsj.org.jm  
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):  Brewery products - Beer, 
stout, shandy, malt ICS 67.160.10 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Jamaican Standard 
Specification for Brewery pr oducts- Beer, stout, shandy, malt (adoption of CARICOM 
Regional Standard Specifica tion for Specification for Br ewery products - Beer, stout, 
shandy, malt) (21 pages, in English)  
6. Description of content:  This document specifies requireme nts for brewery products to be 
sold in the Caribbean Community (except be verages sold under common names including the 
words 'beer' and 'ale' that are not derived from ce reals e.g. ginger beer, gi nger ale, root beer).  
Requirements of the document include clas sification of brewer y products, labelling, 
ingredients, processing aids, hygienic requirem ents, quality assurance, and sampling approved 
test procedures. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
This document is intended to set specifications that are generally acceptable to consumers in 
the region and meet the requireme nts of regulatory authorities. It is intended to be used by 
manufacturers, distri butors, importers as well as regulators of the industry.  G/TBT/N/JAM/24 
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  8. Relevant documents:   A notice of the Jamai can Standard Specificat ion for Brewery products 
will appear in The Jamaica Gazette Supplem ent - Proclamations, Rules and Regulations. 
When adopted, the document will appear as a Jamaican Standard Specification, with 
mandatory status, and will be available for sale.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
 
Proposed date of entry into force:    Date of publication in the Jamaica Gazette 
Supplement - Proclamations, Rules and Regulations. 
Six months following date of publication in the 
Jamaica Gazette Supplement - Proclamations, 
Rules and Regulations 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days after circulati on by WTO Secretariat 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
The full text of the proposed technical regul ation (mandatory standa rd) can be directly 
accessed on the website of the Bureau Standards Jamaica:  http://www.bsj.org.jm