. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/SLV/142 
21 June 2010 
 (10-3364) 
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:  EL SALVADOR
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología , CONACYT (National 
Science and Technology Council) 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 [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):   Poultry products.  
Poultry meat.  Chicks and hens of the species Gallus gallus  (International Classification for 
Standards (ICS) code 67.120.20) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   NSO 67.64.01:10:  
Productos Avícolas.  Carne de Aves.  Pollo  y Gallina Beneficiados Listas para Cocinar 
Enteras, Cortes y sus Menudos.  Especificaciones (Salvadoran Mandatory Standard (NSO) 
No. 67.64.01:10.  Poultry products.  Poultry meat.  Slaughtered, ready-to-cook chicks and hens of the species Gallus gallus , whole or cut in pieces, and the offal thereof.  
Specifications) (12 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Standard lays down the quality and safety 
requirements applicable to the meat of sla ughtered, ready-to-cook poultry (chicks and hens 
of the species Gallus gallus ), whole or cut in pieces, and to the offal of such birds, which 
are domestically produced or imported and marketed in El Salvador. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Quality and safety, in order to protect human health. 
8. Relevant documents:  
- Poultry-Grading Manual , Agriculture Handbook Number 31, United States 
Department of Agriculture, June 1989; 
- "Regulations Governing the Voluntary Grading of Poultry Products and Rabbit 
Products  and US Classes, Standards and Grades", Code of Federal Regulations  
(7 CFR Part 70), United States Department of Agriculture, 6 March 1995; 
- Mexican Official Standard NOM-FF-80-1992:  Carne de pollo en canal.  
Especificaciones  (Chicken meat on the carcass.  Specifications); G/TBT/N/SLV/142 
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  - Guatemalan Standards Commission (COGUANOR) Mandatory Standard (NGO) 
No. 34 212:  Pollo beneficiado listo para cocinar (pollo crudo) entero y en cortes, 
y sus menudos.  Especificaciones  (Slaughtered, ready-to-cook chickens (raw), 
whole or cut in pieces, and chicken offal.  Specifications); 
- Directorate-General for Standards a nd Industrial Technology-Panamanian 
Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards (DGNTI-COPANIT) Technical 
Regulation No. 33-2007:  Primera actualización .  Carne de aves.  Pollo, gallina y 
gallo procesado listo para cocinar (crudo), entero y en cortes y sus menudos  (First 
revision.  Poultry meat.  Processed ready-to-cook meat (raw), whole or cut in pieces, and offal of chicks, hens and cocks of the species Gallus gallus ); 
- Nicaraguan Mandatory Technical Standard (NTON) No. 03 023-06:  Primera 
revisión.  Pollo Beneficiado Listo para Cocinar (Pollo Crudo), Entero y en Cortes, 
y sus Menudos  (First revision.  Slaughtered, ready-to-cook chickens (raw), whole 
or cut in pieces, and chicken offal); 
- Salvadoran Mandatory Standard (NSO) No. 13.07.04:00:  Hielo.  Especificaciones 
y Buenas Prácticas de Fabricación  (Ice.  Specifications and Good manufacturing 
practices); 
- Salvadoran Mandatory Standard (NSO) No. 13.17.01:08:  Agua.  Agua Potable.  
Segunda actualización (Water.  Drinking water.  Second revision); 
- Salvadoran Mandatory Standard (NSO) No. 67.10.01:03:  Norma General para el 
Etiquetado de Alimentos Preenvasados.  Primera actualización  (General Standard 
on the labelling of pre-packaged foods.  First revision). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon publication in the Official Journal 
Six months after publication in the Official 
Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry po int [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and E-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Ministerio de Economía 
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe Plan Maestro, San Salv ador, El Salvador 
Tel.:   +(503) 2247-5788 
Fax:   +(503) 2247-5789 E-mail:   ezelada@minec.gob.sv 
or address, telephone and fax numbers and E- mail and website addresses, if available, 
of other body:  
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) 
Colonia Médica, Avenida Dr Emilio Alvarez 
Pasaje Dr Guillermo Rodríguez Pacas #51 
San Salvador, El Salvador Tel.:   +(503) 2234-8416 Fax:   +(503) 2225-6255 Website:  http://www.conacyt.gob.sv/
 
E-mail:  evaneg as@conacyt.gob.sv