. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/HND/34 
2 August 2006 
 (06-3738) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible :  Secretaría de Industria y Comercio  (Ministry of Industry and Trade) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
Dirección General de Integraci ón Económica y Política Comercial 
(Directorate-General of Economic Integration and Trade Policy) 
Boulevard José Cecilio del Valle Edificio San José 4to piso 
Fax: (+504) 235-5047 / 235-3082 
E-mail: pcomercial@sic.gob.hn Web site:  www.sic.gob.hn 
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):  71.100 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   RTCA 71.01.37:06 
Productos Higiénicos.  Registro e Insc ripción Sanitaria de Productos Higiénicos  (Central 
American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 71.01.37:06: Cleaning products.  Sanitary 
registration and authorization of cleanin g products) (9 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   The purpose of this technical regulation is to establish the 
conditions and requirements under which sanitary registration and authorization of cleaning 
products will be granted. 
 This technical regulation is binding in th e States Parties on natural or legal persons 
involved in the production or importation of clean ing products which contains at least one 
dangerous ingredient in a concentration greater  than 1 per cent and which, on the basis of 
technical studies, are classified as dangerous, according to the criteria laid down in Annex D.  Those internationally classified as carcinoge nic, mutagenic or teratogenic, in accordance 
with the criteria laid down by ACGIH, ATSDR, EPA, HMIS, IARC, NIOSH, NTP, OHMS, 
OSHA, TSCA and WHO, must be declared when they are present in a concentration greater 
than 0.1 per cent and shall be subject to manda tory sanitary registration or authorization. 
 The products listed in Annex A, which the St ates Parties shall define by consensus, G/TBT/N/HND/34 
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  shall not come within the scope of this regulation. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:    
 Protection of human health and life. 
8. Relevant documents:   Recommendations on the Trans port of Dangerous Goods, Model 
Regulations, United Nations, New York and Geneva.  
http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/unrec/rev13/English/00E_Intro.pdf United States Code of Federal Regulations (C FR), Title 40.  Classification of Dangerous 
Goods. 
United States Code of Federal Regulations  (CFR), Title 29, Part No. 1910.1200, 
Occupational Safety and Health St andards.  Section on the Safety Data Sheet, declaration of 
hazardous constituents. 
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp. show_document?p_table =STANDARDS&p_id
=10099 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
Proposed date of entry into force:    Upon publication in the Official Journal. 
To be determined. 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification. 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Secretaría de Salud 
Dirección General de Regulación Sanitaria Centro de Tegucigalpa antiguo edificio BANMA esquina opuesta a Farmacia Regis 
 
Fax:  (+504) 237-2726  E-mail:  regulacionhon@yahoo.com  Dirección General de Reproducción y Consumo Departamento de Normalización y Metrología  
Boulevard José Cecilio del Valle 
Edificio San José  3er piso  Fax:  (+504) 235-5006 
E-mail:  normalizacion@sic.gob.hn 
Web site: www.sic.gob.hn