G/TBT/N/HND/100  
3 March  2023 
(23-1499) 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 : HONDURAS  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Agencia de Regulación Sanitaria , ARSA (Agency for Sanitary Regulation)  
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:  
Agencia de Regulación Sanitaria (ARSA)  
Calle Los Alcaldes, Frente al City Mall  
Email: consultapublica@arsa.gob.hn  
Website: http://www.arsa.gob.hn  
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) : Sanitary 
surveillance and control  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Reglamento de 
Organización, Funcionamie nto y Atribuciones de la Dirección Nacional de Vigilancia y 
Fiscalización Sanitaria  (Regulations on the Organization, Functioning and Responsibilities 
of the National Directorate for Sanitary Surveillance and Control) (97 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description  of content : The notified text provides for the supervision, verification, 
control and surveillance of the compliance by establishments supplying products and 
services  of sanitary interest  with legal, technical and administrative regulations . It 
provides f or the implementation of the policies and procedures required to apply the 
sanitary regulations in force, with a view to remedying any conduct or poor practices that 
have or may have an impact on human health through technical and legal processes and 
the imposition of the relevant penalties . It also regulates import and export processes 
and all other regimes applicable to consumer products for human use and establishes 
provisions concerning the network of laboratories.  
The notified text is of general intere st and shall apply to natural and legal persons, public 
or private, engaged in handling, selling, dispensing, processing, packing, preserving, 
manufacturing, refurbishing, importing, re -importing, exporting, re -exporting, storing, 
transporting, distributing, marketing, clinical trial research and advertising activities, in 
addition to any other activity specified by the ARSA, that involve products of sanitary 
interest . It shall also apply to any establishment rel ated to the above -mentioned 
activities, with a view to protecting health.  G/TBT/N/HND/100  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection ; Protection of 
human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  
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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:  
Agencia de Regulación Sanitaria (ARSA)  
Calle Los Alcaldes, Frente al City Mall  
Email: consultapublica@arsa.gob.hn  
Website: http://www.arsa.gob.hn  
Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico , SDE  (Secretariat for Economic Development)  
Dirección General de Integración Económica y Política Comercial (Directorate -General of 
Economic Integration and Trade Policy)  
Centro Cívico Gubernamental "José Cecilio del Valle".  
Torre I, piso 9  
Tel.: (+504) 2242 8 365 
Email:  
gabriela.salinas@sde.gob.hn ; gsalinas_sic@yahoo.com  
The text may be accessed at: https://sde.gob.hn/wp -
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