. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/LCA/3
5 September 2003
(03-4645)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   SAINT LUCIA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards
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):   Rice
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   DLNS 69:2003 –
Rice, Specification, Sampling, Tests and Analysis (28 pages, in English)
6. Description of content:   This standard prescribes the requirements for grades of paddy,
cargo rice, milled rice, cargo parboiled rice and milled parboiled rice.  It also specifies the
general conditions for sampling and the methodologies for assessing the various factors
used in determining the quality of rice.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards intends to recommend to the Minister responsible for
the Bureau of Standards that this standard be declared a compulsory standard in order to:
(a) Protect the consumer or user against danger to health or safety;
(b) to prevent fraud or deception arising from misleading advertising or labelling;
(c) to require adequate information to be given to the consumer or user.
8. Relevant documents:
(a) International Standard ISO 13690:1999.  Cereals – Sampling (as grain)
(b) International Standard ISO 7301:1988.  Rice specification
(c) Guyana Rice Development Board, Guyana rice standards specification:  Grades and
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(d) Codex Alimentarius Commission, Pesticide Residues in Food Volume 2, Second
Edition, 1993.
(e) Codex Standard for Rice (CODEX STAN 198-1995).
(f) United States Standards for Rice, September 11, 1995.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }-
10. Final date for comments:   30 September 2003
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS)
TBT Enquiry PointHeraldine Rock Building, 4
th Floor,
John Compton Highway
Castries
Saint Lucia – West Indies
Tel.: (+758)  4530049, 4560546, 4684235
Fax: (+758)  452 3561
E-mail: slbs@candw.lc
Website: www.slbs.org.lc