WORLD TRADE G/TBT/2/Add.29
23December 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-5418)
Original: Spanish Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OFTHE AGREEMENT
ONTECHNICAL BARRIERS TOTRADE
Thefollowing declaration, pursuant toArticle 15,paragraph 2oftheAgreement, hasbeen
received from thedelegation ofPeru.
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1. TheAgreement Establishing theWorld Trade Organization andtheMultilateral Agreements
contained intheFinal ActoftheUruguay Round, which includes theAgreement onTechnical Barriers
toTrade, wereincorporated intothedomestic legislation ofPeruunder Legislative Decree No.26407
approved bytheCongress oftheRepublic, promulgated bythePresident andpublished intheOfficial
Journal ("ElPeruano") on18December 1994. TheAgreements contained intheFinal Actofthe
Uruguay Round entered intoforce on1January 1995.
2. Peruvian technical standards areprepared bytheTechnical Standardization Committees which
areoverseen bytheCommission onTechnical andTrade Regulations andconsist ofrepresentatives
ofallthesectors involved intheactivity tobestandardized (producers, consumers andexperts). On
behalf andunder thesupervision oftheCommission, these committees regularly prepare drafts of
Peruvian technical standards intheirspecific areas ofspecialization.
3. TheINDECOPI Commission onTechnical andTrade Regulations approves recommendable
Peruvian technical standards andlegalPeruvian metrological standards.
4. Although thePeruvian technical standards approved bytheCommission onTechnical andTrade
Regulations arerecommendatory, theymaybemade mandatory onacontractual basis byagreement
between theparties orthrough atechnical regulation issued byaState body. Thisbody declares a
Peruvian technical standard mandatory iflegitimate national objectives (health, security, consumer
andenvironmental protection) areatstake, inaccordance withPeru'sinternational commitments.
Legislationharmonizingtheperiodsallowedforissuingtechnicalstandards,withprovisionforcomments,
iscurrently being prepared.
5. Technical regulations, standards andconformity assessment procedures arepublished in"El
Peruano".
6. Inaccordance withtheprovisions ofArticle 10.1and10.3oftheAgreement, theINDECOPI
Commission onTechnical andTrade Regulations hasbeendesignated, asthenational enquiry point
ofPeru. Itsaddress, telephone andfaxnumbers andelectronic mailaddress areasfollows:
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Comisión deReglamentos Técnicos yComerciales
Instituto deDefensa delaCompetencia ydelaPropiedad Intelectual
Calle LaProsa No.138
Lima 41,Peru
Tel.: (51-1) 224-0788
Fax: (51-1) 224-0348/ (51-1) 224-0347
E-mail: cnmamel@indecopi.gob.pe
7. TheVice-Ministry ofTourism, Integration andInternational Trade Negotiations oftheMinistry
ofIndustry, Tourism, Integration andInternational Trade Negotiations (MITINCI) alsocoordinates
withtheMinistry ofForeign Affairs onmatters relating tonotifications under WTO agreements. Its
address, telephone andfaxnumbers andelectronic mailaddress areasfollows:
ViceMinisterio deTurismo, Integración yNegociaciones Comerciales Internacionales
Calle UnoOeste No.050
Urb.Corpac
Lima 27
Peru
Tel.: (51-1) 2243401/ (51-1) 2243369
Fax: (51-1) 2243136/ (51-1) 2243143
E-mail: vmtinci@mitinci.gob.pe
8. On8June1995, theINDECOPI Commission onTechnical andTrade Regulations accepted
theCode ofGood Practice forthepreparation, adoption andapplication ofstandards.