. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/DOM/160 
10 July 2012 
 (12-3715) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: Spanish 
  
 
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@digenor.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 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 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 67.140.20 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   NORDOM 
67:22-006, Café verde.  Examen olfativo y vis ual, y determinación de la materia extraña y 
defectos (Dominican Standard (NORDOM) No. 67:22-006:  "Green coffee.  Olfactory and 
visual examination and determination of fo reign matter and defects") (12 pages, in 
Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   The notified Standard covers the following:  Purpose;  Sampling;  
Olfactory examination;  Visual examination;  Determination of foreign matter and defects;  
and Test report.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish methods for the olfactory and visu al examination and for the determination of 
foreign matter and defects in green coffee in order to assess conformity with a specification 
or a contract.  These methods  can also be used for dete rmining one or more of the 
characteristics of green coffee with an imp act on coffee quality for technical, commercial, 
administrative and arbitration purposes, and for quality control or quality inspection. G/TBT/N/DOM/160 
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  8. Relevant documents: 
International Organization for Standard ization (ISO) Standard No. 4149:2005:  
"Green Coffee.  Olfactory and visual examination and determination of foreign matter and 
defects". 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  } To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   20 August 2012 
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