. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/PAN/37 
24 May 2007 
 (07-2125) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   Not applicable. 
In Panama, technical regulations are not  prepared by local government; only the 
Directorate-General for Standards and I ndustrial Technology, a central government 
authority, is so authorized. 
2. Agency responsible:   Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial  - DGNTI 
(Directorate-General for Standards and Industr ial Technology) (responsible for processing 
notifications)   
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:   Same agency 
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):   Poultry meat 
(International Classification for St andards (ICS) code: 67.120.20) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Reglamento Técnico 
DGNTI COPANIT 33-2007. Tecnología de los a limentos. Carne de aves, pollo, gallina y 
gallo procesado listo para cocinar (crudo), entero y en cortes y sus menudos  (Directorate-
General for Standards and Industrial Technology-Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards (DGNTI-COPANIT) Technical Regulation No. 33-2007:  Food technology. Processed meat (raw), whole or cut in  pieces, and offal of poultry, chickens and 
fowls of the species Gallus domesticus )  (19 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation covers the following: Objective 
and scope; Standards for consu ltation; Definitions; Classification of cuts; Specifications and 
characteristics; Sampling; Labelling and ma rking; Storage and transport; Reference 
documents, and Regulatory annex. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 Human health and safety. 
8. Relevant documents:    
- FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission; 
- Norma Oficial Mexicana (Mexican Official Standard) NOM-FF-80-1992; G/TBT/N/PAN/37 
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  8. Relevant documents:   (cont'd) 
- Federal Register Vol. 61, No. 144, Rules and Regulations , United States Department 
of Agriculture (USDA), Thursday 25 July 1996; 
-  USDA, Poultry-Grading Manual , Agriculture Handbook Number 31, Revised 
April 1998; 
- Norma Guatemalteca Obligato ria COGUANOR NGO 34 212:99: Pollo beneficiado 
listo para cocinar (pollo crudo) entero y en cortes, y sus menudos. Especificaciones  
(Guatemalan Standards Commission (C OGUANOR) Mandatory Standard (NGO) 
No. 34 212:99: Slaughtered, ready-to-cook chickens (raw), whole or cut in pieces, and chicken offal. Specifications); 
- USDA, US Trade Descriptions for Poultry , August 2000;  
- Norma Peruana NTP 201.154: Carne y Productos Carnes. Aves para consumo. 
Deficiones, requisitos y clasificación de las carcasas y carnes  de pollo, gallos, 
gallinas, pavos, patos y gansos (Peruvian Standard (NTP) No. 201.154, Meat and 
meat products. Poultry for consumption. De finitions, requirements for and grading of 
the carcasses and meat of chickens, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus , turkeys, 
ducks and geese), 2001; 
- USDA, United States Classes, Standards and Grades for Poultry , AMS 70.200 et 
seq., Effective 5 September 2002; 
- USDA, Regulations Governing the Voluntary Grading of Poultry Products and 
Rabbit Products , 7 CFR Part 70, Effective 1 January 2004; 
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Standard, Chicken 
Meat - Carcasses and Parts , 2006 Edition; 
- Norma Técnica Obligatoria Nicaragüense, NTON 03 023 - 06, Primera Revisión, 
Pollo Beneficiado Listo para Cocinar (Pollo Crudo), Entero y en Cortes, y sus 
Menudos, Especificaciones; Literatura Técnica (Nicaraguan Mandatory Technical 
Standard (NTON) No. 03 023 - 06, First revision, Slaughtered, ready-to-cook 
chickens (raw), whole or cut in pieces, a nd chicken offal, Specifications; Technical 
literature). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   } Immediately after publication 
10. Final date for comments:   20 July 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body:    
Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial 
Ave. Ricardo J. Alfaro y Calle El Paical  
Edif.. Plaza Edison, 3er Piso 
Ciudad de Panamá Tel.: (+507) 360-0716 Fax: (+507) 360-0721 E-mail: dgnti@mici.gob.pa