Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - El Salvador - Equipment for measuring pollutant emissions from motor vehicles - Addendum

NOTIFICATION

Addendum

The following communication, dated 27 October 2023, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of El Salvador.

 

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Title: Reglamento Técnico Salvadoreño RTS 13.01.02:23 CALIDAD DEL AIRE. CONTROL DE EMISIONES ATMOSFÉRICAS GENERADAS POR FUENTES MÓVILES. VEHÍCULOS TERRESTRES. LÍMITES PERMISIBLES, ESPECIFICACIONES TÉCNICAS DEL EQUIPO Y PROCESO DE MEDICIÓN (Salvadoran Technical Regulation (RTS) No. 13.01.02:23: "Air quality. Monitoring of air emissions from mobile sources. Road vehicles. Permissible limits, technical specifications of the equipment and measurement process")

 

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https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/SLV/modification/23_13189_00_s.pdf

New deadline for comments (if applicable): 60 days from notification

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Description: On 10 October 2003, the Government of the Republic of El Salvador notified, in document G/TBT/N/SLV/26, draft Salvadoran Mandatory Standard (NSO) No. 17.08.08:04: "Equipment for measuring pollutant emissions from motor vehicles - Specifications and calibration procedures" with the aim of "establish[ing] the main characteristics, the calibration procedures, and the frequency of these procedures, which must be adhered to, so as to ensure the reliability of results, by equipment that is used to verify the permissible limits for emissions of air pollutants from motor vehicles running on petrol, diesel or other fuels". These limits have been set in NSO No. 13.11.03:01: "Atmospheric emissions. Mobile sources".

The purpose of the present Addendum is to notify WTO Members that the content of the Salvadoran Mandatory Standard has been updated and that the Standard has been converted into a Salvadoran Technical Regulation. Members will have 60 days from the date of this notification to make comments or observations.

The full text is available from:

Ministerio de Economía (Ministry of Economic Affairs)

Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales (Directorate for the Administration of Trade Agreements)

Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe, Plan Maestro, San Salvador, El Salvador

Website: http://www.economia.gob.sv

Tel.: (+503) 2590 5788; Fax: (+503) 2590 5789

Email: datco@economia.gob.sv

 

Consejo Nacional de Calidad (National Quality Council)

Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica, OSARTEC (Salvadoran Technical Regulation Agency)

Boulevard San Bartolo y Calle Lempa, costado Norte del INSAFORP, Edificio CNC, Ilopango, San Salvador, El Salvador

Website: https://osartec.gob.sv/

Tel.: (+503) 2590 5335; (+503) 2590 5338

Email: consultasreglamento@osartec.gob.sv

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