WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.00/568
5 December 2000
(00-5270)
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:   EL SALVADOR
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   National Science and Technology Council
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):   1701.11.00
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   " S u g a r s .
Specifications"  (6 pages, in Spanish)  Compulsory Salvadorean Standard Establishing thePhysical and Chemical Characteristics and Nutritional Specifications for Sugar.
6. Description of content:   This Technical Regulation consists of:  purpose, scope of
application, definitions, types of sugar, composition and essential quality factors, addition of
fortifiers, contaminant limits for all sugars, h ygiene, packaging and labelling, analysis and
test methods and legal references.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:   
Protection of human health by overcoming nutritional deficiencies in El Salvador,
such as Vitamin A organic deficiency, which causes eye disease and even blindness,
especially among low-income Salvadoreans.  The Regulation is based on the Manual ofTechnical and Quality Requirements for Fortified Foods in Central America, of the Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Institute of Nutrition of Central America
and Panama (INCAP).
8. Relevant documents:   No. of Technical Regulation:  NSO 67.20.01:00
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }10 March 2001
10. Final date for comments:   10 February 2001
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [     ] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:  Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Departamento de
Normalización, Metrología y Certificación de la Calidad, colonia Médica, pasaje Doctor
Guillermo R. Pacas, # 51, San Salvador.  Tel.:  (503) 226-2800 and (503) 226-2999,
Fax:  (503) 225-6255, E-mail:  cit@conacyt.gob.sv; and Ministerio de Economía, Dirección
de Política Comercial, Alameda Juan Pablo II y calle Guadalupe, Plan Maestro, San
Salvador.  Tel.:  (503) 221-3578, Fax:  (503) 221-4771