. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/QAT/6 
10 January 2006 
 (06-0076) 
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:   STATE OF QATAR
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Standards and Metrology Department 
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:    
Qatar General Organization fo r Standards and Metrology   
P.O. Box 23277 State of Qatar  
Tel:  (+974) 4408555 
Fax:  (+974) 4478508 
E-mail:  standard @ qatar.net.qa   
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):         
Food products 
1-  Edible vegetable oils ( ICS:  67.200) 2-  Fruits flavoured tobacco (ICS:  65.160) 3-  Canned sardines (ICS:  67.120.30) 4-  Baking powder (ICS:  67.220.20) 5-  Vanilla (ICS:  67.220.20) 
6-  Rice  (ICS:  67.60) 
7-  Dried milk (ICS:  67.100.01) 8-  Raw milk (ICS: 67.100.01 ) 9-  Processed cheese (ICS: 67.100.30) 10- Non alcoholic beverages (ICS: 67.160.20) 
11- Wheat flour (ICS:  67.060) 
12- Frozen fish (ICS:  67.120.30) 13- chicken eggs (ICS: 67.120.20) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:         
1-  Edible vegetable oils (8 pages, in Arabic) 
2-  Fruits flavoured tobacco (10 pages, in Arabic). 3-  Canned sardines (9 pages, in Arabic) 
4-  Baking powder (5 pages, in Arabic) G/TBT/N/QAT/6 
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5-  Vanilla (10 pages, in Arabic) 
6-  Rice (10 pages, in Arabic) 7-  Dried milk (6 pages, in Arabic) 9-  Processed cheese (12 pages, in Arabic) 10- Non alcoholic beverages (8 pages, in Arabic) 
11- Wheat flour (10 pages, in Arabic) 
12- Frozen fish (9 pages, in Arabic) 
13- chicken eggs (16 pages, in Arabic) 
6. Description of content:   Mainly the above food draft technical regulation deal with the 
definition, essential composition, quality factor s, food additives, Grades, types,  hygienic 
regulations, and labelling of these products, also methods of test for these products. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To prevent misleading and confusing the cons umer, to maintain quality of these products, 
consumer protection and marketi ng relation of G.C.C. country. 
8. Relevant documents:         
1-  CAC 210 / 1999 
2-  G.C.C resolution 3-  CAC 94 / 1995 4-  Different documents 5-  ISO 5565 – 1 / 1999 6-  CAC 198 / 1995 
7- Different documents 
8- Different documents 9-  CAC 8 /  1978 10- Different documents 11- CAC 152 / 1995 
12- CAC 190 / 1995 
13- EC 1520 / 1993 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }Not yet determined   
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after the date of distribution. 
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:   
Eng . Abdulrahman Bin Yousif Al- Abdaljabbar  
Tel:  (+974) 4408518 Fax:   (+974) 4478508 
Email:  standard @ qatar.net.qa 
Email:  qastand @ yahoo.com