. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/VEN/24
11 September 2002
(02-4788)
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:   BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:  Autonomous National Service for Standardization, Quality,
Metrology and Technical Regulations (SENCA MER) of the Ministry of Production and
Trade (MPC)
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:
Autonomous National Service for Standardization, Quality, Metrology and Technical
Regulations (SENCAMER)
Avenida Libertador
Centro Comercial Los Cedros, PHP.O. Box 1050
Tel:  (58 212) 761 8671 / 761 4520
Fax:  (58 212) 761 5464
E-mail:  npunto@cantv.net
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):   Electrical raceways.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   C O V E N I N
(Venezuelan Commission for Industrial Standards) Standard No. 2577:2002  Galvanized
Steel Intermediate Metal Conduit (IMC) for Electrical Installations  (first revision).
6. Description of content:   Minimum requirements and test methods for galvanized steel
intermediate metal conduits used as electrical raceways.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Human safety.
8. Relevant documents:   COVENIN (Venezuelan Commission for Industrial Standards)
Standard No. 2577:2002.G/TBT/N/VEN/24
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9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Three (3) months after publication in theOfficial Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela.
10. Final date for comments:   4 October 2002
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [    ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of the other body:
Ministry of Production and Trade
Vice-Ministry of IndustryAutonomous National Service for Standardization, Quality, Metrology and Technical
Regulations (SENCAMER)
Avenida Libertador
Centro Comercial Los Cedros, PH
P.O. Box 1050
Tel:  (58 212) 761 8671 / 761 4520Fax:  (58 212) 761 5464
E-mail:  npunto@cantv.net