G/TBT/N/PER/117  
21 October  2019 
(19-6877) 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 : Instituto Nacional de Calidad , INACAL (National Quality Institute)  
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:  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo , MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and 
Tourism)  
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - Perú 
Tel.: (+51-1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 and 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) : Labelling of 
prepackages ; Packaging and distribution of goods in general ( ICS 55 .020)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notifi ed document : Proyecto de 
Norma Metrológica Peruana P NMP 001 :2019 "Requisitos para el etiquetado de 
preenvasados"  (Draft Peruvian Metrology Standard (PNMP) No. 001:2019, "Labelling 
requirements for prepackages") (21 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : Draft Peruvian Metrology Standard No. 001:2019, "Labelling 
requirements for prepackages", sets out requirements for the labelling of prepackages with 
respect to the identity of the product, the declaration of responsibility for a pr epackage and 
the quantity of product in the prepackage . It applies to prepackages with constant nominal 
quantity and to products with random nominal quantities which are prepackaged and bear 
a quantity declaration.  
The draft Peruvian Metrology Standard doe s not cover labelling requirements for reasons of 
health, safety or tax, or for other purposes such as date limit for sale or use, storage 
conditions, etc. D eclarations of ingredients on labels or nutritional information on the labels 
of food products, whe ther compulsory or not, are also not covered by the draft Peruvian 
Metrology Standard.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling  
8. Relevant documents:  
OIML R 79:2015 "Labeling requirements for prepackages"  G/TBT/N/PER/117  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : Six months following publication in the official 
journal, El Peruano . 
10. Final date for comments : 22 November 2 019 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Instituto Nacional de Calidad , INACAL (National Quality Institute)  
Dirección de Metrología  (Directorate  of Metrology)  
Calle Las Camelias N° 870, San Isidro  
Tel.: (+51-1) 513 -6100 
https://www.inacal.gob.pe  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo , MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and 
Tourism)  
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - Perú 
Tel.:  (+51-1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 and 1239  
https://www.mincetur.gob.pe  
Email:  otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
http://extranet.comunidadandina.org/sirt/public/index.aspx  
http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos  
https://www.inacal.gob.pe/repositorioaps/data/1/1/5/jer/normasmetrologicasperuanas/file
s/PNMP -001-2019.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/PER/19_5779_00_s.pdf