. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/DOM/121 
22 November 2011 
 (11-6080) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad , DIGENOR 
(Directorate-General of Standards and Quality Systems) Edificio de Oficinas Gubernamentale s "Juan Pablo Duarte", piso 11 
Avenida México esquina Leopoldo Navarro 
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: 1-809-686-2205 Fax: 1-809-688-3843 E-mail: digenor@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do/  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 91.100.30 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   NORDOM 91:7-002 
Hormigón y productos de hormigón.  Hormigón y producción (Dominican Standard 
No. 91:7-002:  Concrete and c oncrete products.  Concrete a nd production) (27 pages, in 
Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   Unit of purchase, information for making a purchase, mixture 
specifications indicated by the client, materials,  slump tolerance, concrete containing air, 
measurement of materials, dosing system, mixe rs and agitators, mixing and delivery, use of 
non-agitating equipment, and resistance. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified text establishes specifications for plant-produced concrete, whether or not in 
the form of pre-fabricated elements, a nd concrete produced on construction sites. G/TBT/N/DOM/121 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
(a) Handbook 44 "Specifications, toleran ces and other technical requirements for 
weighing and measuring devices". 
(b) Concrete Manual, Bureau of Reclamation. (c) Standard Specification for Ready-Mixed Concrete, American Society for Testing and 
Materials.  Philadelphia, 2004 (ASTM-C-94). 
(d) Colombian Technical Standard, NTC-3318, 25 October 2000. 
(e) ACI 318-2000 Earthquake resistance standard.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Six months after publication 
To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   26 December 2011 
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 Normas y Sistemas de Calidad (DIGENOR) 
Edificio de Oficinas Gubernamentale s "Juan Pablo Duarte", piso 11 
Avenida México esquina Leopoldo Navarro 
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: 1-809-686-2205 Fax: 1-809-688-3843 E-mail: cendocdigenor@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do/