. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/DOM/118 
22 November 2011  
 (11-6078) 
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@gmail.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 67.040 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   NORDOM 
67:39-002, Alimentos obtenidos por medios bi otecnológicos modernos.  Directrices para la 
realización de la evaluación de la inocuidad de  los alimentos obtenidos de plantas de ADN 
recombinante  (Dominican Standard (NORDOM) No. 67:39-002:  Foods derived from 
modern biotechnology.  Guideline for th e conduct of food safety assessment of foods 
derived from recombinant-DNA plants) (18 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified Standard covers the following:  Definitions;  Food 
safety assessment;  Unintended effects;  General considerations;  Description of the host plant;  Description of the donor organism;  Genetic modification;  Food processing;  and 
Nutritional modification. G/TBT/N/DOM/118 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified Standard establishes the principles for the risk analysis of foods derived from 
modern biotechnology.  It addresses safety and nutritional aspects of foods consisting of, or 
derived from, plants that have a history of saf e use as sources of food, and that have been 
modified by modern biotechnology to exhi bit new or altered expression of traits. 
8. Relevant documents: 
(a) Evaluación de la inocuidad de lo s alimentos genéticamente modificados  (GM food 
safety assessment), FA0, Rome 2009; 
(b) Directrices para la realización de la eval uación de la inocuidad de los alimentos 
obtenidos de plantas de ADN recombinante  (Guideline for the conduct of food safety 
assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Six months after publication 
To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   26 December 2011 
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