. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/DOM/14
13 March 2003
(03-1430)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Directorate-General of Standards and Quality Systems (DIGENOR)
Av. México, Edificio Huacal, 11th Floor
Santo Domingo
Tel:   809-686-2205
Fax:   809-688-3843
E-mail: digenor@codetel.net.do          
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:           
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):        HS 2710.00.60.
Lubricating oils for use in petrol-fuelled internal combustion engines.  ICS 75.100.00.          
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:
NORDOM 456, Petroleum Products. Lubricating Oils for Two-Stroke Petrol
Engines (8 pages, in Spanish).          
6. Description of content:
Viscosity characteristics:
(a) Classification according to type of service
(b) Physical and chemical properties(c) Classification according to velocity
(d) Packaging and labelling
(e) Testing          
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To establish the requirements and mandatory tests for two-stroke lubricating oils.G/TBT/N/DOM/14
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8. Relevant documents:   INCONTEC 2218, Petroleum and  Petroleum Products.  Lubricating
Oils for Two-Stroke Petrol Engines.          
9. Proposed date of adoption:  -
Proposed date of entry into force:  16 August 1995
10. Final date for comments:           
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:
Directorate-General of Standards and Quality Systems (DIGENOR)          