WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.96.276
23August 1996
ORGANIZATION
(96-3302)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: MALAYSIA
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Standards andIndustrial Research Institute ofMalaysia (SIRIM)
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): Bitumens
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Methods ofTestfor
Viscosity ofBitumens (First Revision)
6. Description ofcontent: ThisdraftMalaysian Standard testmethods cover procedures for
thedetermination ofviscosity ofbitumen byvacuum capillary viscometers at60C.Itis
applicable tomaterials having viscosities intherange from 0.036 tocover 200,000P.
ThisdraftStandard shallsupersede MS783:1982.
7. Objective andrationale:
8. Relevant documents:
9. Proposed dateofadoption: Tobedecided.
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:
10. Final dateforcomments: 30September 1996
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: