G/TBT/N/CHL/662  
2 November  2023 
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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 : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, SUBREI (Under -Secretariat for 
International Economic Relations)  - Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile  (Ministry 
of Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numb ers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias , ODEPA (Office for Agricultural Research an d Policy 
- Ministerio de Agricultura de Chile  (Ministry of Agriculture  of Chile ) 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], 
other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Meat and 
names associated with products of animal origin, such as " hamburguesa " ("hamburger "), 
"chorizo " ("chorizo "), "salchicha " ("sausage ") and " cecina " ("cured meat "). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de Ley 
que modifica el Código Sanitario para definir el concepto de carne y prohibir dar esa 
denominación a productos que no sean de origen animal  (Draft Law amending the Health 
Code to define the concept of meat and prohibit non -animal products from being labelled 
as such).  
6. Description of content : The main idea behind the Draft Law is to incorporate a definition 
of meat into the Health Code and  to prohibit any other product that does not satisfy the 
requirements laid down by law or is not of animal origin from being labelled as meat . The 
Draft Law provides as follows:  
"Single article - The Health Code contained in Decree -Law No. 725 of 1967 of t he Ministry 
of Health is amended to incorporate, after Article 105 decies , the following paragraph:  
'Paragraph III - Meat.  
Article 105 undecies  - "Meat" is understood to mean the edible part of the muscle of 
animals for slaughter, including cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, goats, camels and other 
species suitable for human consumption . The handling, processing, packaging, storage, 
distribution and sale of game meat shall be in compliance with the Food Health 
Regulations and the relevant technical standard, whic h was approved by decree of the 
Ministry of Health and shall be published in the Official Gazette.  
Article 105 duodecies  - Meat includes all soft tissues surrounding the skeleton, including 
fat cover, tendons, blood vessels, nerves, aponeuroses, bones in e ach cut when attached G/TBT/N/CHL/662  
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  to the corresponding muscle mass and all those tissues not separated during processing, 
except for the muscles supporting the hyoid apparatus and the oesophagus.  
"Edible by -product " means parts and organs such as the heart, liver, kid ney, thymus, 
udder, blood, tongue, brains or fat of species for slaughter . Not included in this category 
are the lungs and the parts listed in Article 274 of the Food Health Regulations.  
Article 105 terdecies  - A product that is not of animal origin and do es not comply with the 
provisions of Articles 105 undecies  or 105 duodecies  may not be classified as "meat" . 
Similarly, names associated with products of animal origin, such as "hamburger ", 
"chorizo ", "sausage " and "cured meat ", may not be used to describe, promote or market 
food products containing a higher proportion of plant matter than meat.  
Violations of this Article shall be sanctioned in accordance with Book 10 of this Code . This 
is without prejudice to any other sanctions that may apply purs uant to Law No. 20.169 
regulating unfair competition or other laws. '" 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Draft Law amendin g the Health Code contained in Decree -Law No. 725 of 1967 
of the Ministry of Health,  
• Reglamento Sanitario de los Alimentos  (Food Health Regulations), approved by 
Decree No. 977 of 1996 of the Ministry of Health.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
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:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  (Under -Secretariat for 
International Economic Relations)  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores  (Minist ry of Foreign Affairs)  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56)-2-2827 5491  
Fax: (+56)-2-2380 9494  
Email: tbt_chile@subrei.gob.cl  
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