. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/SLV/108 
20 July 2007 
 (07-3079) 
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:   EL SALVADOR
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible:   Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología  – CONACYT (National 
Science and Technology Council) 
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:    
Ministerio de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy) 
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales  (Directorate of Trade Treaty 
Administration) Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe Plan Maestro 
San Salvador 
Tel.: +(503) 2231 5788 Fax:  +(503) 2231 5789 
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):   Fats and oils.  
International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.020.  HS heading 15. 
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:   N S O   
RTCA 67.04.40:07 Alimentos y Bebidas Procesados.  Gras as y Aceites.  Especificaciones  
(Salvadorian Mandatory Standard) (NSO) / Central American Technical Regulation 
(RTCA)  67.04.40.07 Processed Foods and Beve rages.  Fats and Oils.  Specifications 
(23 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The purpose of this Regulation is to establish the general 
specifications that must be met by vegetable,  animal and marine oils and fats and their 
edible by-products, which are pre-packaged and processed so as to be suitable for human 
consumption and which are marketed within the Central American area. 
 The specifications and parameters containe d in this Regulation apply to the above-
mentioned pre-packaged refined oils and fats.  When an oil or fat has been subjected to 
some process of chemical change or to geogr aphical or climatic variations, supplementary 
or reference criteria may, for those reasons, be used, in order to confirm that they comply 
with the Regulation. 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
 Protection of human health and prevention of practices likely to mislead the 
consumer. 
8. Relevant documents:   Norma General para grasas y ace ites comestibles no regulados por 
normas individuales  (General standard for edible fats and oils not regulated by individual 
standards) CODEX STAN 19-1981 (Rev.2 1999) 
Norma para Margarina (Standard for margarine) CODEX STAN 32-1981 (Rev.1 1989) 
Norma para Aceites Vegetales especificados (Standard for specified vegetable oils) 
CODEX STAN 210 (Rev. 2003, 2005). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Upon publication in the Official Journal  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Six months from the date of adoption 
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:   
Ministerio de Economía  
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales Edificio C-2  Tercer Nivel Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe Plan Maestro  
San Salvador 
El Salvador E-mail: ezelada@minec.gob.sv Tel.: +(503) 2231 5788 Fax: +(503) 2231 5789    
 
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) 
Colonia Médica, Avenida Dr. Emilio Alvar ez, pasaje Dr. Guillermo Rodríguez Pacas, #51 
Tel.: +(503) 2226 2800  +(503) 2235 4191 Fax: +(503) 2225 6255 
Web site: www.infoq.gob.sv
 
E-mail: guerrero@conacyt.gob.sv