 
 WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/LKA/28 
18 November 2004 
 (04-4991) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   SRI LANKA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Sri Lanka Standards Institution 
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):   Blended hydraulic 
cements  HS Code: 25.23.90 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Specification for 
Blended hydraulic cements – SLS 1247: 2003  (27 pages, in English) 
6. Description of content:   This Sri Lanka standard for Bl ended hydraulic cements covers the 
requirements for composition, manufacture, chemical and physical properties and for 
packaging and marking.  This specification pertains to one strength class of blended hydraulic cements using natural or artificial Pozzolanic material or slag with ordinary 
Portland cement clinker. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer Protection 
8. Relevant documents:   A regulation will be published in the Gazette Extraordinary of the 
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri La nka under Imports (Standardization & Quality 
Control) Regulations where import of Blended hydraulic cements to Sri Lanka will not be 
permitted unless it conforms to SLS 1247 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }To be decided 
10. Final date for comments:  - 
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:        
Sri Lanka Standards Institution 
17 Victoria Place Elvitigala Mawatha 
Colombo 08 
Sri Lanka Fax:  +94 112 671579 E-mail:  ddi@slsi.slt.lk 
 