G/TBT/N/CHL/590  
17 March  2022 
(22-2355) Page: 1/3 
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 del Medio Ambiente  (Ministry of the Environment)  
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 f rom above:  
Subsecretaría 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): Cells and 
electrical and electronic equipment  
5. Title, number of pa ges and language(s) of the notified document:  Aprueba 
anteproyecto de decreto supremo que establece metas de recolección y valorización y 
otras obligaciones asociadas de pilas y aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos (P+AEE) 
(Approval of preliminary draft Supr eme Decree establishing collection and recovery 
targets and other obligations relating to cells and electrical and electronic equipment) (31 
pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content: The notified document, which is undergoing a national public 
consult ation, is aimed at establishing collection and recovery targets and other obligations 
relating to the priority products, cells and electrical and electronic equipment, in order to 
prevent the creation of waste and encourage their reuse and recovery.  
This instrument shall apply to cells and electrical and electronic equipment introduced to 
the market, with specified  exceptions. The following categories are established to regulate 
the obligations:  
1. Large Equipment: electrical and electronic equipment with an external 
dimension greater than 50 centimetres.  
2. Small Equipment: electrical and electronic equipment not included in the Large 
Equipment category.  
3. Large Cells: cells weighing more than 5 kilograms.  
4. Small Cells: cells not included in the L arge Cells category.  
Subcategories are also specified. In order to regulate obligations, the following 
subcategories are established in the Large Equipment category:  
1. Temperature Exchange Equipment.  G/TBT/N/CHL/590  
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  2. Other Large Equipment.  
3. Photovoltaic Panels.  
Extended Produ cer Responsibility shall apply to those introducing cells and electrical and 
electronic equipment within the scope of application  to the domestic market . 
Notwithstanding the above, products in the Large Cells category and the Photovoltaic 
Panels subcategor y shall not be subject to the collection and recovery targets.  
Producers ' obligations  and the ways in which they may be held accountable  for their 
products can be assessed through individual and collective management systems, and all 
related reporting  obligations , including the incorporation of a formula for calculating the 
guarantee in order to ensure fulfilment of the related targets and obligations.  
Collection and recovery targets for waste cells and electrical and electronic equipment are 
proposed and, using a management system, the producers of such "products" must 
comply with these targets relative to the total amount of cells and electrical and electronic 
equipment they have introduced into the domestic market.  
The related obligations for producers ar e also described in the preliminary draft, specifying 
the role s and responsibilities of cell marketers and producers. Obligations include: 
providing a service to pick up waste from  marketers; designing, covering and operating 
reception and storage faciliti es; organizing a home collection service for the waste in 
question; and providing information, namely, management systems must inform 
distributors, marketers, managers and consumers of the relevant waste management 
costs. This title also specifies the role  and responsibility of managers, including the 
technical requirements for waste management.  
Lastly, this title includes the role and responsibility of industrial consumers and also refers 
to restrictions on dangerous substances in products.  
The last titles  refer to the obligations and options, including the reverse logistics of this 
waste, and to other actors, such as waste pickers, municipalities and consumers . 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:  
- Ley N° 18.575, Orgánica Constitucional de Bases Generales de la Administración 
del Estado Decreto con Fuerza de Ley N° 1/19.653, de 2000, del Ministerio Secretaría 
General de la Presidencia . 
- Resolución Exenta N° 249, del 20 de marzo de 2020, del Ministerio del Medio Ambiente -
Subsecretaría del Medio Ambiente, que instruye medidas extraordinarias de visación de 
documentos del Ministerio del Medio Ambiente -Subsecretaría del Medio Ambiente a raíz 
de la alerta sanitaria por emergencia de salud pública de importancia internacional (ESPII) 
por brote de coronavirus (COVID -19). 
- Resolución Nº 7, de 2019, de la Contraloría General de la República, que fija normas 
sobre exención de trámite de toma de razón.  
- Ley Nº 19.300, sobre Bases Generales del Medio Ambiente.  
- Decreto Supremo N° 8, de 2017, del Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, Reglamento 
que regula el procedimiento de el aboración de los decretos supremos establecidos en la 
Ley N° 20.920.  
- Resolución Exenta Nº 310, del 16 de abril de 2021, del Ministerio del Medio 
Ambiente, que pone término al proceso que se indica y da inicio al proceso de elaboración 
del decreto supremo  que establece metas de recolección y valorización y otras 
obligaciones asociadas de pilas y aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos, y regula un sistema 
de depósito y reembolso . 
- Resolución Exenta Nº 524, de 4 de junio de 2021, del Ministerio del Medio 
Ambien te, que convoca a representantes para integrar el comité operativo ampliado que 
participará en la elaboración del decreto supremo que establece metas de recolección y G/TBT/N/CHL/590  
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  valorización y otras obligaciones asociadas de pilas y aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos , y 
regula un sistema de depósito y reembolso . 
- Resolución Exenta Nº 675, de 7 de julio de 2021, del Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, 
que designa integrantes del comité operativo ampliado que participará en la elaboración 
del decreto supremo que establece m etas de recolección y valorización y otras 
obligaciones asociadas de pilas y aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos, y regula un sistema 
de depósito y reembolso . 
- Resolución Exenta Nº 1543, de 31 de diciembre de 2021, del Ministerio del Medio 
Ambiente -Subsecr etaría del Medio Ambiente, que amplía aplicación de las medidas 
extraordinarias de visación de documentos del Ministerio del Medio Ambiente -
Subsecretaría del Medio Ambiente, a raíz de la alerta sanitaria por emergencia de salud 
pública de importancia inter nacional (ESPII) por brote de coronavirus (COVID -19). 
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:  
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  
 
Record : https://rechile.mma.gob.cl/pilas -y-aparatos -electricos -y-electronicos/  
Text for consultation: https://consultasciudadanas.mma.gob.cl/portal/consulta/125  
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