. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/QAT/110 
12 February 2009  
 (09-0723) 
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:  QATAR
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Standards and Metrology Department 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
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 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):   
Vinegar (ICS: 67.040). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   
Vinegar (13 pages in Arabic, 10 pages in English). 
6. Description of content:   
This draft technical regulation is concerned with products as:  
Acetic acid food grade:   Product made from material s of non-agricult ural origin. 
Vinegar:   Is a liquid, fit for human consumption, produced-exclusively from suitable products 
of agricultural origin containing starch or sugars or starch and sugars by the process of double 
fermentation alcohol ic fermentation followed by acet ous fermentation and containing a 
specified amount of acetic  acid, its kinds such as: 
Grape, fruit, berry, and apple (cider) vinegar:   Are liquids prepared from Grape, fruit 
berry and apple (cider) by al coholic fermentation followed by acetous fermentation or 
as defined in (3.2) except that the ma ximum level for volatile acids in the raw 
materials may be exceeded. 
Grain vinegar:   Is a liquid, obtained without inte rmediate distillation by the process 
defined in (3.2) from any cereal grain, th e starch of which ha s been converted to 
sugars by a process other than solely  by the diastase of malted barley. G/TBT/N/QAT/110 
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  Malt vinegar:
  Is a liquid, obtained without inte rmediate distillation by the process 
defined in (3.2) from malted barley with or  without the addition of  cereal grains, the 
starch of with has been c onverted to sugars solely by  the diastase of the malted 
barley. 
Distilled malt vinegar:   Is a liquid, produced by th e distillation of malt vinegar as 
defined in (3.2.3) above, under reduced pressure it contains only the volatile 
constituent of the malt vinegar from which it is derived.  
Whey vinegar:   A liquid obtained from milk whey  without intermediate distillation 
by the process defined in (3.2). 
Honey vinegar:   A liquid obtained without interm ediate distillation by the process 
defined in (3.2). 
Dates vinegar:   A liquid prepared from natural dates juice by the process defined in 
(3.2). 
Sprit vinegar, distilled vinegar:  A liquid obtained by acetous fermentation from 
distilled alcohol. 
Definitions, classifi cation, requirements, grading, samp ling, methods of test, packaging, 
transportation, storage and labelling. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:   
To maintain quality of this product, consum er protection and marketing relation of GCC 
countries and food safety.  
8. Relevant documents:   www.saso.org.sa   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Upon publication in the official  journal.         
Six (6) months as from the date of application in 
the official journal. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days after the date of distribution. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or addre ss, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
Qatar General Organization fo r Standards and Metrology  
Email:  standard@qatar.net.qa 
THE LINK: http://www.qs.org.qa/ar/nc/f ood/distributions/dist12.html