G/TBT/N/PER/121  
7 April 2020 
(20-2748) 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 : PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego , MINAGRI (Ministry of Agriculture 
and Irrigation)  
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:  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo , MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and 
Tourism)  
Calle Uno Oeste N° 50 , Urb. CORPAC  
Lima 27 , Peru 
Tel.: (+51 1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 or 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
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):  
Section I (chapters 1 to 5 : live animals ; animal products)  
Section II (chapters 6 to 14 : vegetable products)  
Section III (chapter 15 : animal or vegetable fats and oils)  
Section IV (chapters 16 to 24 : prepared foodstuffs ; beverages and spirits ; tobacco)  
Section IX (chapters 44 to 45 : wood; wood charcoal ; cork) 
Section X (chapter 47 : woodpulp)  
Section XI (chapters 50 to 53 : textiles)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Reglamento 
Interno Sectorial sobre Seguridad de la Biotecnología para el Desarrollo de Actividades con 
Organismos Vivos Modificados para el Sector Agrario  (Sectoral internal regulation on 
biotechnology safety for activities involving living modified organisms for the agricul tural 
sector) (58 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified regulation implements the provisions and 
procedures set out in Law No. 27104 (Law on the prevention of risks derived from the use 
of biotechnology) and its Regulation and in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the 
Convention on Biological Diversity that concern activities involving living modified 
organisms (LMOs) for the agricultural sector intended for:  
(i) Use as food or feed, or for processing;  
(ii) Contained use ; or 
(iii) Intentional introduction into the environment.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Activities involving living modified organisms must be conducted in such a G/TBT/N/PER/121  
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  way as not to affect human health, the environment or biological diversity ; Protection of 
human health and safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Ley N° 27104, Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Derivados del Uso de la Biotecnología  
• Decreto Supremo N° 108 -2002-PCM, Reglamento de la Ley de Prevención de 
Riesgos Derivados del Uso de la Biotecnología  
• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity  
9. Proposed date of adopti on: November 2 020 
Proposed date of entry into force : May 2 021 
10. Final date for comments : 31 May 2 020 
11. Texts available from : National Enquiry Point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (MINCETUR)  
Calle Uno Oeste N° 50 , Urb. CORPAC  
Lima 27 , Peru 
Tel.: (+51 1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 or 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria (INIA)  
Subdirección de Regulación de la Innovación Agraria  
Av. La Molina 1981, La Molina, Lima, Peru  
Tel.: (+51 1) 240 -2100, Ext. 232  
Email: JALCANTARA@INIA.GOB.PE  
https://www.inia.gob.pe/arbios -risba/  
http://extranet.comunidadandina.org/sirt/public/buscapalavra.aspx  
http://consultasenlinea.mincetur.gob.pe/notificaciones/Publico/FrmBuscador.aspx  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments /2020/TBT/PER/20_2379_00_s.pdf