. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/DOM/173 
11 July 2012 
 (12-3731) 
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@digenor.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 71.100.40 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   NORDOM 148 
(1ra Revisión) Jabones en barra para lavar (Dominican Standard (NORDOM) No. 148 
(first revision):  Laundry soap in bars) (8 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   The notified Standard cove rs the following:  Purpose;  
Definitions;  Classification;  Requirements;  Inspection and reception;  Test methods;  
Labelling;  and Packaging. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish the requirements for soap that can  be used with moderately hard water for 
general cleaning and laundry purposes. G/TBT/N/DOM/173 
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  8. Relevant documents: 
1. ASTM 497-69 (reapproved in 1974), Americ an Society for Testing and Materials. 
2. Bolivian Standard NB 74013:  Jabón de lavar en panes o barras - Requisitos  
(Laundry soap in cakes or bars - Requirements), second revision, August 2010. 
3. Colombian Technical Standard NTC 527:  Jabones en barra para lavar  (Laundry 
soap in bars), seventh revision, edited 2003-09-09, Colombian Technical Standards and Certification Institute (ICONTEC). 
4. Colombian Technical Standard NTC 545:  Jabones y detergentes.  Definiciones 
generales  (Soaps and detergents.  General definitions), fifth revision, edited 
2004-11-12, Colombian Technical Standards and Certification Institute (ICONTEC). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   20 August 2012 
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