EL SALVADOR: LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES: BUTANE AND PROPANE-BUTANE MIXTURE The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.96.435. 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 can be indicated if different from above. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): 2711.12.00, 2711.13.00. 5.Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: "Liquefied Petroleum Gases: Butane and Propane-Butane Mixture. Specifications" (5 pages). 6. Description of content: Technical Regulations containing a report and technical provisions on liquefied petroleum gases, covering consultation rules, characteristics, sampling, testing and analysis methods, and the relationship with other standards. 7. Objective and rationale: To regulate the use of liquefied gases or mixtures of C

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AC /t='1'>ndez Pje. San Antonio 51, San Salvador, Tel: 226-2800, FAX: 225-6255; and Ministry of Economic Affairs, Department of Trade Policy, Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe Plan Maestro, San Salvador, Tel: 221-3578, FAX: 221-4771. (0022)

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