G/TBT/N/PAN/37
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World Trade
Organization
G/TBT/N/PAN/37
24 May 2007
(07-2125)
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 PANAMA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): Not applicable. In Panama, technical regulations are not prepared by local government; only the Directorate-General for Standards and Industrial Technology, a central government authority, is so authorized.
2. / Agency responsible: Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial - DGNTI (Directorate-General for Standards and Industrial Technology) (responsible for processing notifications)
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, E-mail and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above: Same agency
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): Poultry meat (International Classification for Standards (ICS) code: 67.120.20)
5. / Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Reglamento Técnico DGNTI COPANIT 33-2007. Tecnología de los alimentos. Carne de aves, pollo, gallina y gallo procesado listo para cocinar (crudo), entero y en cortes y sus menudos (Directorate-General for Standards and Industrial Technology-Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards (DGNTI-COPANIT) Technical Regulation No. 33-2007: Food technology. Processed meat (raw), whole or cut in pieces, and offal of poultry, chickens and fowls of the species Gallus domesticus) (19 pages, in Spanish).
6. / Description of content: The notified Technical Regulation covers the following: Objective and scope; Standards for consultation; Definitions; Classification of cuts; Specifications and characteristics; Sampling; Labelling and marking; Storage and transport; Reference documents, and Regulatory annex.
7. / Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
Human health and safety.
8. / Relevant documents:
- FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission;
-  Norma Oficial Mexicana (Mexican Official Standard) NOM-FF-80-1992;
8. / Relevant documents: (cont'd)
-  Federal Register Vol. 61, No. 144, Rules and Regulations, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Thursday 25 July 1996;
-  USDA, Poultry-Grading Manual, Agriculture Handbook Number 31, Revised April1998;
-  Norma Guatemalteca Obligatoria COGUANOR NGO 34 212:99: Pollo beneficiado listo para cocinar (pollo crudo) entero y en cortes, y sus menudos. Especificaciones (Guatemalan Standards Commission (COGUANOR) Mandatory Standard (NGO) No.34 212:99: Slaughtered, ready-to-cook chickens (raw), whole or cut in pieces, and chicken offal. Specifications);
-  USDA, US Trade Descriptions for Poultry, August 2000;
-  Norma Peruana NTP 201.154: Carne y Productos Carnes. Aves para consumo. Deficiones, requisitos y clasificación de las carcasas y carnes de pollo, gallos, gallinas, pavos, patos y gansos (Peruvian Standard (NTP) No. 201.154, Meat and meat products. Poultry for consumption. Definitions, requirements for and grading of the carcasses and meat of chickens, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, turkeys, ducks and geese), 2001;
-  USDA, United States Classes, Standards and Grades for Poultry, AMS 70.200 et seq., Effective 5 September 2002;
-  USDA, Regulations Governing the Voluntary Grading of Poultry Products and Rabbit Products, 7 CFR Part 70, Effective 1 January 2004;
-  United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Standard, Chicken Meat - Carcasses and Parts, 2006 Edition;
-  Norma Técnica Obligatoria Nicaragüense, NTON 03 023 - 06, Primera Revisión, Pollo Beneficiado Listo para Cocinar (Pollo Crudo), Entero y en Cortes, y sus Menudos, Especificaciones; Literatura Técnica (Nicaraguan Mandatory Technical Standard (NTON) No. 03 023 - 06, First revision, Slaughtered, ready-to-cook chickens (raw), whole or cut in pieces, and chicken offal, Specifications; Technical literature).
9. / Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: / } / Immediately after publication
10. / Final date for comments: 20 July 2007
11. / Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers, E-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body:
Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial
Ave. Ricardo J. Alfaro y Calle El Paical
Edif.. Plaza Edison, 3er Piso
Ciudad de Panamá
Tel.: (+507) 360-0716
Fax: (+507) 360-0721
E-mail: