. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/DOM/148 
25 June 2012 
 (12-3366) 
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:   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: mailto: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 [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):  ICS 65.100 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  NORDOM 65:4-019 
Límites máximo de residuos de plaguicidas permitidos para el cultivo y el manejo del 
plátano (Dominican Standard (NORDOM) No. 65:4-019:  Maximum authorized pesticide 
residue limits for banana production and management) (6 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content:  Purpose, definitions and requirements.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish the maximum pesticide residue limit s applicable to the marketing of bananas 
in the Dominican Republic. 
8. Relevant documents:  
1. Codex Alimentarius Commission, CAC/GL 41-1993:  "Portion of commodities to 
which Codex Maximum Residue Limits  apply and which is analysed"; 
2.   Codex Alimentarius, Volume 2B:  "Pesticide Residues in Food - Maximum 
Residue Limits"; G/TBT/N/DOM/148 
Page 2  
 
  3. Codex Alimentarius Commi ssion, Procedural Manual, 17
th Edition, 2007; 
4. Codex Alimentarius Commission, CAC/ MRL 1-2009:  "Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) for Pesticides"; 
5. Decree No. 244-10 of 27 April 2010 of the Ministry of Agriculture;  Reglamento 
Técnico de Límites Máximos de Residuos de Plaguicidas en Frutas, Vegetales y 
Afines  (Technical Regulation establishing the maximum residue limits for 
pesticides in fruit, vegeta bles and related products). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: } Not 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: mailto:cendocdigenor@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do