. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/HND/25 
12 January 2006 
 (06-0138) 
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:   REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Secretaría de Industria y Comercio  (Ministry of Industry and Trade) 
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:    
 
Dirección General de Integración Económica y Politica Comercial, Boulevard José Cecilio del Valle Edificio San José, 4to piso Fax:  (+504) 235 5057 
E-mail:    pcomercial@sic.gob.hn 
Website: www.sic.gob.hn 
 
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: 01.060 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   HN-RTCA 
01.01.11:05.   Cantidad de Producto en Preempacados  (Honduran Standard - Central 
American Technical Regulation No. 01.01. 11:05. Quantity of Product in Prepackages) 
(21 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   This Technical Regulation applies to the quantity of product in 
prepackages marketed in Cent ral American countries.  
 It lays down the legal metrology requir ements for prepackaged products (also 
known as prepackaged or prepacked consumer  goods) labelled in predetermined nominal 
quantities of mass, volume, linear measure, area or count, and the sampling procedures and plans to be used by legal metrology officials for verifying the quantity of product in prepackages. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:    
 Prevention of practices likely to mislead or deceive the consumer. 
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  8. Relevant documents:    
ISO 3534-1: 1993 Statistics - vocabulary and sy mbols - Part 1: Probability and general 
statistical terms.  Guide to the expression of uncertainty in me asurement, first edition, 1993, corrected and 
reprinted 1995, International Organization for Standardization (Geneva, Switzerland). 
 OIML R 79 Labeling requirements for prepackaged products. OIML, Paris, 1997.  OIML R 87 Quantity of product in prepackages. OIML, Paris, 2004.   
Decree No. 22268-MEIC – Costa Rican Standard (NCR) 148:1993 Metrología. Contenido 
neto de preempacados  (Metrology. Net contents of prepackages). La Gaceta  No. 132 of 
13 July 1993. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined 
Following publication in La Gaceta  (Official 
Journal) 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from the date of notification 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [    ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Dirección General Reproducción y Consumo 
Edificio San José 
3er piso 
Fax:  (+504) 235 5006 
E-mail:    normalizacion@sic.gob.hn Website: www.sic.gob.hn