G/TBT/N/GTM/97  
18 June 2019 
(19-4170) 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 : GUATEMALA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social  (Ministry of Public 
Health and Social Welfare)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notificati on shall be indicated if different from above:  
Departamento de Regulación y Control de Alimentos de la Dirección General de 
Regulación, Vigilancia y Control de la Salud del Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia 
Social  (Food Regulation and Control Depart ment of the Directorate -General of Health 
Regulation, Surveillance and Control at the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare)  
Tel.: 2296-4027 
Email: secretariadrca@mspas.gob.gt  
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) : 
0405.10.00, 0406.30.00, 0406.10.10,  0402.91.10 and 0402.99.10  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Reglamento de 
especificaciones para mantequilla, queso procesado o fundido, queso mozarella, leche 
evaporada y leche condensada (Regulations on the specificatio ns for butter, processed 
cheese, mozzarella cheese, evaporated milk and condensed milk ) (16 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified text establishes regulations on the specifications 
for butter, processed cheese, mozzarella cheese, evap orated milk and condensed milk.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  
• Protection of human health.  
8. Relevant documents:  
CODEX Standards:  
• Processed cheese : CODEX STAN A8a 1978;  
• Butter : CODEX S TAN 279 -1971: Standard for butter;  
• Mozzarella cheese : CODEX S TAN 262 -2007: Standard for mozzarella;  
• Evaporated milk : CODEX S TAN 281 -1971;  
• Condensed milk : CODEX S TAN 282 -1971: Standard for condensed milk,  G/TBT/N/GTM/97  
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  and the following Central American Technical Regulations : 
• 67.04.54:10 Alimentos y Bebidas Procesadas . Aditivos Alimentarios ; 
• 67.04.50:17 Primera Revisión . Alimentos . Criterios Microbiológicos para la 
Inocuidad de los Alimentos ; 
• 67.01.07:10 Etiquetado General de los Alimentos Previamente Envasados 
(Preenvasados) ; 
• 67.04.65:12 Uso de Términos Lecheros ; 
• 67.01.60:10 Etiquetado Nutricional de Productos Alimenticios preenvasados 
para consumo humano para la población a partir de 3 años de edad ; 
• 67.01.33:06 Industria de Alimentos y Bebidas Procesados . Buenas P rácticas de 
Manufactura . Principios Generales . 
9. Proposed date of adoption : Upon publication in Official Journal  
Proposed date of entry into force : To be determined  
10. Final date for comments : 60 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:  
Departamento de Regulación y Control de Alimentos de la Dirección de Regulación, 
Vigilancia y Control de la Salud  (Food Regulation  and Control Department of the 
Directorate -General of Health Regulation, Surveillance and Control)  
Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social  (Ministry of Public Health and Social 
Welfare)  
Address : Avenida Bolívar 28 -07 zona 8, 5to nivel Guatemala.  
Tel.: (+502) 2296 -4027.  
Email: secretariadrca@mspas.gob.gt