Agency responsible: Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio, Departamento de Reglamentación Técnica Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, Technical Regulation Department Tel
Trang 1O RGANIZATION 14 October 2011
(11-5052)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6
1 Notifying Member: COSTA RICA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2 Agency responsible:
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio, Departamento de Reglamentación Técnica
(Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, Technical Regulation Department)
Tel.: +(506) 2291-2115, Ext 206 or +(506) 2291-2015
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:
TBT Enquiry Point
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, MEIC
Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José
Tel.: +(506) 2291-2115, Ext 206
Fax: +(506) 2291-2015
E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr/
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): International
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.100.99
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: RTCR 454:2011
Reglamento Técnico para leche condensada (Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR)
No 454:2011 for condensed milk) (17 pages, in Spanish)
6 Description of content: The notified Regulation applies to condensed milk intended for
direct consumption or further processing and defined as such under Section 3.1 of this Regulation
7 Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
Consumer information
Trang 28 Relevant documents:
- Decreto Ejecutivo (Executive Decree) of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and
Trade No 26012-MEIC of 15 April 1997, Costa Rican Technical Regulation
(RTCR) No 100:1997: Etiquetado de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Labelling of pre-packaged foods) and amendments thereto, published in La Gaceta (Official
Journal) No 91 of 14 May 1997;
- Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade
No 30256-MEIC-S of 15 January 2002, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR)
No 135:2002: Etiquetado Nutricional de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Nutrition
labelling of pre-packaged foods), published in Official Journal No 71 of
15 April 2002;
- Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade No 33371-COMEX-MEIC of 10 August 2006 issuing Resolution No 168-2006 (Council of Ministers for Economic Integration (COMIECO) XLIX), Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA)
No 01.01.11:06: Cantidad de Producto en Preempacados (Quantity of product in
pre-packages), published in Official Journal No 194 of 10 October 2006;
- Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
No 35485-COMEX-S-MEIC-MAG of 15 June 2009 issuing Resolution
No 243-2009 (COMIECO LV), Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA)
No 67.04.50:08: Alimentos Criterio Microbiológico para la inocuidad de los
alimentos (Foods Microbiological criteria for food safety), published in
Official Journal No 184 of 22 September 2009;
- Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade
No 36463-MEIC of 26 November 2010, Costa Rican Technical Regulation
(RTCR) No 443:2010: Metrología Unidades de Medida Sistema
Internacional (SI) (Metrology Measurement units International System (SI)),
published in Official Journal No 56 of 21 March 2011
9 Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:
Date of publication in the Official Journal
La Gaceta
Six months after publication in the Official Journal
10 Final date for comments: 60 days as from the date of notification
Trang 311 Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and website addresses, if available, of the other body:
TBT Enquiry Point
San José, Costa Rica
Apartado postal 10216-1000
Tel.: +(506) 2235-2700, Ext 206
Fax: +(506) 2297-1439
E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr/
The full text of the document is available at:
http://www.reglatec.go.cr/consulta/RTCR_454_lechecondomc.pdf and
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2011/tbt/CRI/11_3342_00_s.pdf