WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/CS/N/128
15 February 2001
(01-0738)
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:  ALBANIA
Name of standardizing body:   DIRECTORATE OF STANDARDIZATION AND QUALITY
(DSC) ∗
Address of standardizing body: Rruga "MINE PEZA" N°143/3 TIRANA ALBANIA
Telephone:  +355 42 262 55 Telefax:  +355 42 262 55 Telex:           
E-mail:  dsc@icc.al.eu.org Internet:           
Type of standardizing body:
[X]  central governmental [     ]  local governmental [     ]  non-governmental
Scope of current and expected standardization activities:  All activities related to standards.  We
have begun adoptation and adaptation of international ISO standards and EN regional standards,
looking into how the actual laws provide us with the possibilities.
Date:  4 August 1997
                                                     
∗ DSC accepted the Code before Albania became a WTO Member on 8 September 2000.