G/TBT/N/BOL/17, G/TBT/N/COL/239  
G/TBT/N/ECU/476, G/TBT/N/PER/116  
24 September  2019 
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PERU  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Comunidad Andina  (Andean Community)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Address : Av. Mariscal Santa Cruz, Edificio Centro de Comunicaciones La Paz, Piso 17  
Tel.: (+591) 2 -2184342 ; (+591) 2 -2184343  
Fax: 2356742  
Email: reglamentos.técnicos@producción.gob.bo  joaquin.aviles@produccion.gob.bo.com  
avilesjoaqu in@hotmail.com  
Website: http://produccion.gob.bo/  
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) : 
3303.00.00 Perfumes and toilet waters ; 33.04 Beauty or make -up preparations and 
preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), including sunscreen or 
sun tan preparations ; manicure or pedicure preparations ; 3304.10.00 Lip make -up 
preparations ; 3304.20.00 Eye make -up preparations ; 3304.30 Manicure or pedicure 
preparations - Other;  3304.91.00 Powders, whether or not co mpressed ; 3304.99.00 
Other ; 33.05 Preparations for use on the hair ; 3305.10.00 Shampoos ; 3305.20.00 
Preparations for permanent waving or straightening ; 3305.30.00 Hair lacquers ; 
3305.90.00 Other ; 33.06 Preparations for oral or dental hygiene, including den ture 
fixative pastes and powders ; yarn used to clean between the teeth  (dental floss), in 
individual retail packages ; 3306.10.00 Dentifrices ; 3306.90.00 Other ; 33.07 Pre -shave, 
shaving or after -shave preparations, personal deodorants, bath preparations, de pilatories 
and other perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, not elsewhere specified or included ; 
prepared room deodorisers, whether or not perfumed or having disinfectant properties ; 
3307.10.00 Pre -shave, shaving or after -shave preparations ; 3307.20.0 0 Personal 
deodorants and antiperspirants ; 3307.30.00 Perfumed bath salts and other bath 
preparations ; 3307.90 Other ; 3307.90.90 Other ; 34.01 Soap ; organic surface -active 
products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces  or 
shapes, whether or not containing soap ; organic surface -active products  and preparations 
for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or 
not containing soap ; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, c oated or 
covered with soap or detergent - - Soap and organic surface -active products and 
preparations, in the  form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, and paper, 
wadding,  felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or  detergent ; 
3401.11.00 For toilet use (including medicated products) ; 3401.20.00 Soap in other 
forms ; 3401.30.00 Organic surface -active products and preparations for washing the skin, 
in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or not containing soap ; 
38.08 Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti -sprouting products and 
plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings G/TBT/N/BOL/17 • G/TBT/N/COL/239 • G/TBT/N/ECU/476 • G/TBT/N/PER/116  
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  for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sul phur-treated bands, wicks 
and candles, and fly -papers) . Other; 3808.91 Insecticides ; 3808.91.14 Containing 
permethrin or cypermethrin or other synthetic substitutes for pyrethrum (pyrethroids), 
with the exception of those specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter ; 3808.91.19 
Other;  3808.91.91 Containing natural pyrethrum (pyrethrins) ; 3808.91.97 Containing 
permethrin or cypermethrin or other synthetic substitutes for pyrethrum (pyrethroids), 
with the exception of those specified in Subheading Note 2 to  this Chapter ; 3808.91.99 
Other;  Perfumes and toilet waters (HS 3303) ; Beauty or make -up preparations and 
preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), including sunscreen or 
sun tan preparations ; manicure or pedicure preparations (HS 330 4); Preparations for use 
on the hair (HS 3305) ; Dentifrices (HS 330610) ; Other (HS 330690) ; Pre-shave, shaving 
or after -shave preparations (HS 330710) ; Personal deodorants and antiperspirants (HS 
330720) ; Perfumed bath salts and other bath preparations (HS  330730) ; Other (HS 
330790) ; For toilet use (including medicated products) (HS 340111) ; Soap in other forms 
(HS 340120) ; Organic surface -active products and preparations for washing the skin, in 
the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, wheth er or not containing soap (HS 
340130)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Reglamento Técnico Andino sobre Especificaciones Técnicas Microbiológicas de Productos 
Cosméticos  (Draft Andean Technical Regulation establishing microbiological technical 
specifications for cosmetics) (5 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Andean Technical Regulation establishes the 
microbiological technical specificatio ns and, where applicable, the physicochemical 
specifications for cosmetics, on the basis of which such products are deemed to be free 
from microbiological contamination.  
It applies to the cosmetics specified on the indicative list contained in Andean Community 
Decision No. 833. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Andean Technical Regulation establishes t he 
microbiological technical specifications for cosmetics marketed in the territories of the 
Andean Community member countries, with the aim of protecting human health and 
safety, in accordance with Article 9(l) of Decision No. 833 on the harmonization of 
legislation on cosmetic products (2018) . It also establishes the physicochemical 
specifications for cosmetics, on the basis of which such products are deemed to be free 
from microbiological contamination.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Decisión 833 Armonización d e Legislaciones en materia de Productos 
Cosméticos  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 26 November 2 019 
Proposed date of entry into force : 26 November 2 019 
10. Final date for comments : 16 November 2 019 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/BOL/19_5201_00_s.pdf