. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/HND/63 
24 November 2010 
 (10-6311) 
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:   HONDURAS
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Secretaria de Industria y Comercio  (Ministry of Industry and Trade) 
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:  
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, 3er piso 
Fax.: (+504) 235-3082/235-5047 E-mail: wduque@sic.gob.hn
 
Website: http://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) code 65.100 
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:   RTCA 65.03.44:07, 
Plaguicidas.  Plaguicidas de uso doméstico y de uso profesional.  Requisitos de etiquetado  
(Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA)  No. 65.03.44:07:  Pesticides.  Pesticides 
for domestic and professional use.  Registrati on requirements.) (20 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified Regulation establishes the requirements for 
registration of pesticides for domestic and professional use. 
It applies to natural and legal persons who re gister pesticides covered by this Regulation 
and derived from the processes of:  manufacture, formulation, export and import, 
distribution, marketing, sale and use. 
It does not apply to pesticides of bot anical and microbiological origin. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health G/TBT/N/HND/63 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
- Manual Sobre Elaboración y Empleo de las Especificaciones de la FAO y de la 
OMS para Plaguicidas  (Manual on Development and Use of FAO and WHO 
Specifications for Pesticides); 
- Directrices Internacionales de la OMS  (WHOPES) (WHO International Guidelines 
(WHOPES - WHO Pesticides Evaluation Scheme)); 
- Decreto Ejecutivo 30043-S "Reglamento para el Registro de Plaguicidas 
Domésticos, Fertilizantes Domésticos, Plaguicidas Industriales y De Salud 
Pública, República de Costa Rica " (Executive Decree No. 30043-S, "Regulation on 
the Registration of Domestic Pesticides , Domestic Fertilizers and Industrial and 
Public Health Pesticides"), Republic of Costa Rica; 
- Acuerdo Gubernativo Número 712-99 "Regla mento Para El Control Sanitario de 
los Medicamentos y Productos Afines", República de Guatemala 1999  
(Government Decision No. 712-99, "Regul ation on the Sanitary Control of 
Medicines and Related Products"), Republic of Guatemala, 1999; 
- Ley 274:  Para la Regulación y Control de Plaguicidas, Sustancias Tóxicas, 
Peligrosas y Similares, República de Nicaragua 1998  (Law No. 274 on the 
Regulation and Control of Pesticides and Other Toxic and Dangerous Substances), 
Republic of Nicaragua, 1998; 
- Sistema Globalmente Armonizado de Clas ificación y Etiquetado de Productos 
Químicos (SGA), 1° Edición Naciones Unidas, New York / Ginebra 2005  (Globally 
Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)):  First Revised Edition, United Nations, New York/Geneva 2005. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  } To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   No time for comments 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website 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) 237–9404 y 237–2726 
E-mail: normativorshn@yahoo.com
 
Secretaría de Industria y Comercio 
Dirección General Protección al consumidor Departamento de Normalización  
Boulevard José Cecilio del Valle Edificio San José, 2do piso 
Fax: (+504) 235–5006 E-mail: normalizacion@sic.gob.h
 
Website: http://www.sic.gob.hn/