G/TBT/N/CHL/601  
1 July 2022 
(22-5096) 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:  
Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustibles , SEC (Electricity and Fuel Board)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notificat ion shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, SUBREI  - 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 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 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): LPG 
regulators  for mains gas distribution  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proyecto de 
Protocolo de Análisis y/o Ensayos de Reguladores para GLP para distribución de gas de 
red (Draft analysis and/or test protocol for LPG regulators f or mains gas distribution) (10 
pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content: The notified draft protocol establishes the certification 
procedure for "LPG regulators for mains gas distribution", in accordance with the scope 
and field of application of stan dard UL 144:2012 and the existing legal provisions on the 
subject (DS 280 of 2009).  
It does not apply to:  
• Regulators for connecting outdoor cooking gas appliances;  
• Regulators for connecting recreational vehicles;  
• Regulators connected by an integral hose assembly at the regulator outlet;  
• Compressed gas regulators;  
• Gas appliance pressure regulators:  
o Regulators with or without pressure gauge for connecting cylinders with automatic 
valves (PC 1; PC 79:2021, or the provision replacing them)  
o Automatic change -over devices for connecting cylinders with manual valves (PC 
80:2021, or the provision replacing it)  G/TBT/N/CHL/601  
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  • Regulators for use in chemical, petroleum, or utility power plants; pipeline or marine 
terminals; or related storage f acilities at such plants;  
• Combination gas control valves for gas appliances;  
• Regulators for use in oxygen -fuel, gas -welding, and cutting operations; and  
• Regulators for use in engine fuel (automotive and/or marine) applications.  
7. Objective and rati onale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  
- UL 144:2012 - LP-Gas Regulators.  
- Decreto Supremo Nº298, Certificación de Productos Eléctricos y Combustibles, de 2005, 
del Min isterio de Economía, Fomento y Reconstrucción.  
- Resolución N°0681, que Modifica Resolución Exenta N°431, de 2010, y Establece 
productos de combustibles que deben contar con un Certificado de Aprobación para su 
Comercialización en el país, de fecha 07.10.2 011, del Ministerio de Energía.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: To be determined  
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 [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Subsecretaria de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56) 2 2827 5250  
Fax: (+56) 2 2380 9494  
Email: tbt_chile@subrei.gob.cl  
https://www.sec.cl/consulta -publica/#1562021903705 -db277904 -ea8a 
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