. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/SEN/3
23 October 2000
(00-4386)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  French
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  SENEGAL
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  Senegalese Standards Institute/Ministry of Mining, Crafts and
Industry.
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  Tomato concentrate
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Senegalese Draft Standard PNS
03-036, Tomato Concentrate (5 pages)
5. Description of content:  This standard establishes specifications concerning general
characteristics, additives and ingredients, chemical composition, microbiological
characteristics, product hygiene, packaging and mandatory labelling information.  It applies
to the product defined as follows:  tomato concentrate prepared by concentrating juice from
healthy, ripe, red tomatoes ( lycopersicum-esculentum P-Mill ).
Three terms can be used to describe tomato concentrate, depending on the
percentage of natural, soluble, dry tomato matter.  They are:
• tomato single concentrate – minimum content 20%;
• tomato double concentrate – minimum content 28%;
• tomato triple concentrate – minimum content 36%.          
6. Objective and rationale: [  X ] food safety,  [     ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[    ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [     ] protect territory from
other damage from pests  Observance of fair competition.
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [  X ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:           
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Senegalese Draft
Standard PNS 03-036:  Tomato Concentrate (available in French).
9. Proposed date of adoption:  December 2000
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  January 2001G/SPS/N/SEN/3
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11. Final date for comments:  18 December 2000
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [     ] National notification
authority, [     ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
Direction du commerce extérieur
Ministère du commerce
Rue Leblanc x Emile Zola
B.P. 4057
Dakar, Sénégal
Tel:  (221) 821 57 25
Fax:  (221) 822 09 32
12. Texts available from: [     ] National notification authority, [     ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Institut sénégalais de Normalisation (ISN)
Immeuble Mara Center
57 Avenue Georges Pompidou
B.P. 4037
Dakar, Sénégal
Tel:  (221) 823 25 86Fax:  (221 823 25 87