G/TBT/N/CHL/549  
2 February  2021 
(21-0875) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Energía  (Ministry of Energy)  
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:  
Subse cretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de Chile (Under -Secretariat for International Economic Relations, Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
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) : Design, 
construction, operation, ma intenance and inspection of stations for fuelling liquefied 
natural gas (LNG) to vehicles, including equipment, safety and control devices  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : NCh ISO 
16.924:2017 "Estaciones de servicio de g as natural - Estaciones de GNL para la carga de 
combustible de vehículos"  (Chilean Standard (NCh ISO) No. 16.924:2017 "Natural gas 
fuelling stations - LNG stations for fuelling vehicles") (96 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : Proposed formaliz ation of Chilean Standard (NCh ISO) No. 
16.924:2017, approved by the National Standardization Institute.  
The notified Standard specifies the design, construction, operation, maintenance and 
inspection of stations for fuelling liquefied natural gas (LNG) to  vehicles, including 
equipment, safety and control devices . It also specifies the design, construction, 
operation, maintenance and inspection of fuelling stations for using LNG as an on -site 
source for fuelling CNG to vehicles (LCNG fuelling stations), inc luding safety and control 
devices of the station and specific LCNG fuelling station equipment.  
NOTE : Specific CNG equipment is dealt with in ISO 16 293. The notified Standard is 
applicable to fuelling stations receiving LNG and other liquefied methane -rich gases that 
comply with local applicable gas composition regulations or with the gas quality 
requirements of ISO 13686. It includes all equipment from the LNG storage tank filling 
connection up to the fuelling nozzle on the vehicle . The LNG sto rage tank filling connection 
itself and the vehicle fuelling nozzle are not covered in this document . It also includes 
fuelling stations with the following characteristics : private access ; public access (self -
service or assisted) ; metered dispensing and non-metered dispensing ; fuelling stations 
with fixed LNG storage ; fuelling stations with mobile LNG storage ; movable fuelling 
stations ; mobile fuelling stations ; and multi -fuel stations.  G/TBT/N/CHL/549  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety ; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Norma Chilena NCh ISO 16 .924:2017, Estaciones de servicio de gas natural - 
Estaciones de GNL para la carga de combustible de vehículos  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
10. Final date for comments : 30 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56)-2-22827 5250  
Email: tbt_chile@subrei.gob.cl  
To view the above -mentioned Standard, go to https://www.inncoleccion.cl/  and enter 
the following details:  
Empresa  (Company) : SUBREI -005 
Usuario  (Username) : subrei 
Contraseña  (Password) : subrei