WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ARM/1
15 September 2003
(03-4876)
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:   REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Standardization, Metrology and Conformity
Assessment of the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development of the Republic of
ArmeniaM. Mkrtchyan 5, Yerevan, 375010, Republic of Armenia
Tel.: (3741) 56 69 25
Fax.: (3741) 52 65 77
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:
WTO Notification Agency in the Republic of Armenia
M. Mkrtchyan 5, Yerevan, 375010, Republic of Armenia
Tel.: (3741) 56 69 25
Fax.: (3741) 52 65 77e-mail: wtonc@wtonc.am
Web: www.wtonc.am
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [     ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 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:  0202) Meat of bovine animals, froze n;  (HS:  0203 21-0203 29) Meat of swine,
frozen;  (HS:  0206 21 000; 0206 22 000; 0206 41) Edible offal of bovine animals and
swine, frozen;  (HS:  0207 12; 0207 14; 0207 25; 0207 27;  0207 33; 0207 36) Meat and
edible offal of poultry, frozen;  (HS:  0209 00 110) Pig fat;  (HS:  0210) Meat and ediblemeat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked;  (HS:  0303; 0304 20) Fish, fish meat, frozen,
dried, salted, smoked;  (HS:  0401; 0402; 0403 10; 0405 10; 0405 90; 0406) Milk and milk
products;  (HS:  0407 00) Birds' eggs;  (HS:  0409 00 000) Natural honey;
(HS:  0713-0713 40) Peas, chickpeas, lentils;  (HS:  0901; 0902) Coffee, tea;
(HS:  1101 00; 1103) Cereal flours;  (HS:  1507 10 900; 1509 90 000; 1512 19 910;
1515 29 900);  Soya-bean, olive, sunflower-seed, maize oil;  (HS:  1516; 1517)  Animal and
vegetable fats and oils, margarine;  (HS:  1601 00-1605) Preparations of meat, fish or
crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates;  (HS:  1701; 1702 90; 1703; 1704)
Sugar, sugar confectionery not containing cocoa;  (HS:  1805 00 000; 1806) Cocoa powder,
chocolate and other food preparations containi ng cocoa;  (HS:  1901 10 000) Food for infant
use;  (HS:  1902-1905 ex. 1905 90 300) Preparations of cereals, flour, starch and milk,
pastry cooks' products;  (HS:  2001-2009 00) Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other
parts of plants;  (HS:  2101-2105 00; 2106 90 100) Miscellaneous edible preparations, yeast,
ice-cream, cheese fondues;  (HS:  2201-2209 00) Beverages, spirits and vinegar;G/TBT/N/ARM/1
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(HS:  2401-2403) Tobacco and tobacco manufactured substitutes;  (HS:  2501 00 91) Table
salt;  (HS:  2523 21 000; 2523 90 300) Portland cement, not coloured and pozzolanic;
(HS:  2707; 2710; 2711) Oil products;  (HS:   3208; 3209) Paints;  (HS:  3303 00-3306; 3307
10 000; 3307 20 000) Perfumes, beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for use on
the hair, preparations for oral hygiene, shaving, deodorants and antiperspirants;  (HS:  3401;3402 20; 3402 90) Soap, washing and cleaning preparations;  (HS:  3819 00 000; 3820 00
000) Hydraulic brake fluids and anti-freezes as well as other anti-freezing fluid products;
(HS:  3923 10 000-3923 30; 3924 10 000) Articles of plastics for the conveyance, packing,
tableware and kitchenware;  (HS:  4011 10 000; 4011 20) Pneumatic tyres of a kind used on
motor cars, lorries and buses;  (HS:  4012 ex. 4012 90 900) Retreated or used pneumatic
tyres;  (HS:  4014 10 000; 4014 90 100) Contraceptives, teats for babies;  (HS:  4818 10;
4818 20; 4818 40; 5601 10) Household and sanitary articles of paper, cellulose wadding orwebs of cellulose fibres, cotton;  (HS:  6111; 6209) Babies' garments, knitted or crocheted;
(HS:  6810 91) Prefabricated structural components for building or civil engineering;
(HS:  7007 11 10; 7007 21 910) Safety glass, including toughened (tempered) or laminated
glass of size and shape suitable for incorporation in motor vehicles;  (HS:  7213 91 100)
Rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of iron or non-alloy steel of circularcross-section measuring less than 14 mm in diameter;  (HS:  7214 99 100) Bars hot-rolled
with regular profile;  (HS:  8311 10 900) Elec trodes for electric arc-welding;  (HS:  8509 ex.
8509 90) Electro-mechanical domestic appliances;  (HS:  8516 ex. 8516 80, 8516 90)
Domestic electric heating apparatus, water heaters, immersion heaters;  (HS:  8517 30 000)
Telephonic or telegraphic switching apparatus;   (HS:  8517 50) Apparatus, for carrier-
current line systems or for digital line systems;  (HS:  8525 10 500; 8525 10 800; 8525 20
910; 8525 20 990) Transmission and switching apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-
telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television;  (HS:  8536 20 100; 8536 41; 8536 50 ex. 8536
50 900;  8536 61; 8536 69; 853690) Electric apparatus for switching, protecting electric
circuits, for making connections to or in electric circuits;  (HS:  9018 31 100) Syringes ofplastics, with or without needles;  (HS:  9302 00) Revolvers and pistols, other than those of
heading No. 9303 and 9304;  From 9303 20 950:  Smooth-bore sporting, hunting shotguns,
including combination shotgun;  From 9303 30 000:  Rifled sporting and hunting gun;
From 9303 90 000:  Signal flare guns;  From 9304 00 000:  Spring, air or gas guns and
pistols, truncheons;  From 9306 10 000:  Cartridges for riveting or similar tools or for
captive-bolt humane killers and parts thereof;  From 9306 21 000:  Cartridges for smooth-
bore and hunting guns;  From 9306 29 700 ; from 9306 30 100; from 9306 30 300; from
9306 30 980:  Cartridges for rifled and hunting gun;  From 9306 30 980:  Cartridges for gas
pistols and revolvers as well as for signal ar ms and rockets;  (HS:  9502; 9503 ex. 9502 91
000, 9502 99 000) Toys
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft of Decree of the
Government of Republic of Armenia on making amendments to the Decree of the
Government of the Republic of Armenia “O n Compulsory Conformity Assessment of
Products and Services in the Republic of Armeni a”, (5 pages, in Armenian, in English) (not
official translation)
6. Description of content:   Modification of the list of products and services subject to
compulsory conformity assessment in the Republic of Armenia
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To update the list of products and services subject to compulsory conformity assessment
which was previously amended by various Government Decrees.  Safety purposesG/TBT/N/ARM/1
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8. Relevant documents:   Decree of the Government of Armenia “On Compulsory Conformity
Assessment of Products and Services in the Republic of Armenia” of 12 May 2000
9. Proposed date of adoption:  At the end of October 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  The day following official promulgation
10. Final date for comments:   15 October 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:           