WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.357
4 August 1999
(99-3299)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
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 (CONACYT)
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):
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Wastewater
Discharged into a Receiver (10 pages in Spanish);  Salvadorian Mandatory Standard NSO
13.07.03.98 Establishing the Characteristics and Permissible Physicochemical,
Microbiological and Radioactive Values which Wastewater must Possess in Order to
Protect and Reclaim the Receiving Bodies.
6. Description of content:   These technical regulations comprise object, scope, definitions,
abbreviations, requirements, enforcement and verification, reference document and an
annex.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To establish the characteristics and permissible physicochemical, microbiological and
radioactive values which wastewater must possess in order to protect and reclaim the
receiving bodies
8. Relevant documents:  Salvadorian Mandatory Standard NSO 13.07.03.98
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }30 September 1999          
10. Final date for comments:  30 August 1999
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [     ] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:  Consejo de Ciencia y Technología (CONACYT), Departmento
de Normalización, Metrología y Certificación de la calidad, colonia Médica, avenida
Dr. Emilio Alvarez, pasaje Dr. Guillermo Rodriguez Pacas #51, San Salvador, El Salvador,
C.A, tel. (503)2262800, 2262999, fax (503)2256255, e-mail cit@conacyt.gob.sv
Ministerio de Economía, dirección de Política Comercial, Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle
Guadalupe, Plan Maestro, San Salvador, El Salvador C.A tel. (503)2213583,fax (503)2214771 e-mail policom@sal.gbm.net