WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/CS/N/116
2 February 2000
(00-0408)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
Under paragraph C of the Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption and
Application of Standards contained in Annex 3 to the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to
Trade, "Standardizing bodies that have accepted or w ithdrawn from this Code shall notify this fact to
the ISO/IEC Information Centre in Geneva."  The following notification conveyed to the Secretariat
from the ISO/IEC Information Centre is being circulated for the information of Members.
NOTIFICATION
UNDER PARAGRAPH C OF THE WTO TBT CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE
Notification of Acceptance
Country/Customs Territory/ Regional Arrangement:  LATVIA
Name of standardizing body:   Latvian National Centre of Standardization and Metrology
Address of standardizing body: 157, KR. Valdemara Street
LV1013,
Riga,
Latvia
Telephone:  +371 2 378165 Telefax:  +371 2 362805 Telex:           
E-mail:  Ivs@mail.eunet.lv Internet:           
Type of standardizing body:
[X]  central governmental [ ]  local governmental [    ]  non-governmental
Scope of current and expected standardization activities:   
1. To organize technical committees on standardization for adoption of international and 
European standards and elaboration of national standards;
2. Publication and sale of standards;
3. Maintenance of the funds of standards;4. To represent the Republic of Latvia in the international organizations of standardization.
Date:  18 July 1997